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SEC: Penny-Stock Scammers Used ‘Intricate Web Of Offshore Corporations, Foreign Accounts, And Financial Institutions . . . In Canada, Nevis, Panama, Switzerland, And The Turks And Caicos Islands’
Two Canadians have been charged by the SEC in an alleged pump-and-dump scheme that included a reverse merger between a “shell public company” and a startup, “blast emails” and a concerted hype campaign, the U.S. agency said. Named defendants are Bruce D. Strebinger, 38, of Vancouver, and Brent Howard Chapman, 38, who “is or has […]
BULLETIN: SEC: Purported ‘Trust’ Was $15 Million Prime-Bank Ponzi Swindle Operated By Two 70-Year-Olds; 1 Of The Accused Hucksters Has Prior Conviction For Trafficking Cocaine; Investors Were Told ‘Department Of Homeland Security’ Was A Customer And That The Devil Was Behind The Adage, ‘If It Sounds Too Good To Be True . . .”
EDITOR’S NOTE: They don’t come any weirder than prime-bank swindles — and this one is one of the strangest we’ve ever reported on. UPDATED 8:19 A.M. ET (NOV. 20, U.S.A.) Two individuals — both now 70 — conducted a prime-bank Ponzi swindle known as “the Trust” since at least 2004, the SEC said late this […]
BULLETIN: Prominent Football Coach And TV Commentator Jim Donnan Charged In Alleged $80 Million Ponzi Scheme
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Atlanta, alleging that Hall of Fame football coach Jim Donnan and a business partner in Ohio conducted a massive Ponzi scheme that sucked in other coaches and caused one of Donnan’s trusting former players to invest $800,000. The scheme began in 2007 and collapsed in 2010, […]
BULLETIN: SEC Says Missing Man Was Mastermind Of $40 Million Fraud In Georgia In Which ‘Substantially All’ Of A Bank’s Reserves Were Misappropriated And Lost In Trading; Persons With Info Asked To Call FBI Or Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Atlanta, alleging that Aubrey Lee Price masterminded a $40 million investment fraud and that Price might have misappropriated millions of dollars from a “failing” bank in southern Georgia after a company he controlled bought a stake in the bank in 2010. The alleged misappropriation involved “substantially […]