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BULLETIN: SEC Employee Was Member Of Collapsed Imperia Invest IBC Fraud Scheme That Targeted Deaf Investors And Drained Millions Of Dollars; ‘Headquarters’ Worker Placed On Administrative Leave

BULLETIN: SEC Employee Was Member Of Collapsed Imperia Invest IBC Fraud Scheme That Targeted Deaf Investors And Drained Millions Of Dollars; 'Headquarters' Worker Placed On Administrative Leave

BULLETIN: An employee of the SEC at its Washington headquarters was a member of a fraud scheme under investigation by the agency and shared misleading information about its ongoing probe with other investors, according to a report to Congress by SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz. The document does not reveal the employee’s name or […]

FDA Chemist Cheng Yi Liang’s Very Bad Day: Busted By The Feds, Sued By The SEC For Trading On Information Lifted From Confidential Government Database

FDA Chemist Cheng Yi Liang's Very Bad Day: Busted By The Feds, Sued By The SEC For Trading On Information Lifted From Confidential Government Database

A chemist who works for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been charged criminally by federal prosecutors, arrested by federal agents in Maryland, sued by the SEC — and will go to bed tonight knowing his son has been arrested in the same case. Cheng Yi Liang, 56, of Gaithersburg, was accused of abusing […]

REPORT: Former SEC Supervisor Aided Arizona ‘Numerologist’ Running A Ponzi Scheme; SEC Employee In Separate Case Probed For Threatening Boss, Bringing Weapons To Work

REPORT: Former SEC Supervisor Aided Arizona 'Numerologist' Running A Ponzi Scheme; SEC Employee In Separate Case Probed For Threatening Boss, Bringing Weapons To Work

A former supervisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission unwittingly aided a man accused of operating a Ponzi scheme in Arizona, according to a report by SEC Inspector General H. David Kotz. Meanwhile, Kotz reported that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) also investigated a case in which an SEC enforcement accountant allegedly threatened a […]