Paul Greenwood To Forfeit $331 Million; Pleads Guilty In Massive Fraud Scheme That Put Public Pension Funds At Risk While He Collected Teddy Bears
Perhaps he’ll be remembered best for his collection of Steiff teddy bears paid for by investors, but there now are other reasons to remember Paul Greenwood. Greenwood has pleaded guilty to swindling institutional investors, universities and pension funds in a Ponzi-like scheme. He is believed to be cooperating with prosecutors in the ongoing probe of […]
More Pension Funds Frozen In Westridge Capital Management Case; San Diego County Was Pulling Out Of Fund As University of Pittsburgh Was Increasing Stake
Westridge Capital Management (WCM) and affiliate WG Trading appear to have been trolling for cash to sustain the deception until the bitter end. Even as one public retirement system was pulling out and demanding a return of invested funds, another one was increasing its stake. In January, just weeks before the firms were exposed as […]
BREAKING NEWS: Arrests Made In Westridge Capital Management Case; FBI Alleges Massive Fraud
UPDATED 7:18 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) The FBI has made arrests in the Westridge Capital Management case. Paul Greenwood and Stephen Walsh, principals in WCM and an arm known as WG Trading of Greenwich, Conn., both were arrested. WCM is headquartered in Santa Barbara, Calif. Greenwood and Walsh were arraigned this afternoon in New York. Bail […]
Fallout Continues In Westridge Capital Management Case
UPDATE 5:23 P.M. EST (Feb. 25, U.S.A.) The story below is from Feb. 24, the day before Greenwood and Walsh were arrested. See our Feb. 25 story to read about the arrests. Two principals of Westridge Capital Management (WCM) are mum about the controversy swirling around the firm and affiliated companies. Neither Paul Greenwood nor […]
BREAKING NEWS: IPERS Terminates Westridge Capital Management Contract; Says $339 Million May Be At Risk
UPDATE 5:41 P.M. EST (U.S.A.) The Iowa Public Employees’ Retirement System (IPERS) has terminated its investment-management contract with Westridge Capital Management (WCM) of Santa Barbara, Calif. IPERS’ move comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed Friday by two Pennsylvania universities that sued WCM amid concerns that they potentially had lost $114 million in an […]
Read The National Futures Association Report On Paul Greenwood And Stephen Walsh; Association Asserts Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Unaccounted For Amid Suspensions
We’ve previously pointed out that, in recent times, some of the actions filed against financiers and fund managers — and the findings of investigators — have read like works of fiction. On Friday, for example, Irving Picard, the trustee in the Bernard Madoff case, asserted that Madoff appears not to have purchased securities for customers […]
BREAKING NEWS: Another Major Probe Imminent Amid Extraordinary Assertion That Fund Managers Took Hundreds Of Millions Of Higher-Education Client Dollars And Left IOUs
UPDATE 10:55 P.M. EST (Feb. 22, U.S.A.) We’ve added to the bottom of this post some information about Westridge Capital’s website, which appears to consist of a single page and is amateur by any modern standard. We’ve also associated a second domain to the company. It, too, appears to consist of a single page — […]