Tag: SEC
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New Count Of Loan-Sharking Filed Against Accused Ponzi Schemer
Already facing criminal Ponzi and loan-sharking charges in Massachusetts and a disgorgement order of at least $3.1 million in an SEC civil case brought him in April 2013, Steven Palladino faces a new hurdle: He has been arrested again for loan-sharking. That arrest came yesterday, according to the office of Suffolk County (Mass.) District Attorney…
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Profitable Sunrise Facebook Site Again Used To Drive Business To TelexFree, An Alleged Pyramid Scheme
A Facebook cheerleading site for Profitable Sunrise — alleged in April by the SEC to have conducted an offering fraud that may have gathered tens of millions of dollars through offshore bank accounts — again is being used to drive dollars the TelexFree scheme. The same Facebook site has been used to drive cash to…
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Zeekers Targeted In New Scheme With Ties To Piccolo Organization
BULLETIN: Zeek Rewards members are being targeted in a new scheme with ties to the Phil Piccolo organization and are being solicited for sums ranging from $600 to $60,000 “in return for ” . . . “guaranteed 50 percent interest” from a purported “unique and legal loan system” over an unspecified time period, the PP…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: SEC: Ponzi Money Collateralized Credit Line Used To Fund ‘Bridal Store, A Bounty Hunter Reality Television Show, And A Soul Food Restaurant’
“Marcum’s scheme began to unravel in mid-2013, when certain of his investors began demanding distributions. Marcum could not comply, because virtually all of his investors’ money is gone. However, Marcum has attempted to reassure his investors that their investment is secure by producing fabricated documents showing that he has purported net worth of nearly $300…
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BULLETIN: Songkram Roy Shachaisere, Figure In AdSurfDaily Ponzi Story, Indicted With 8 Others In ‘One Of The Largest International Penny Stock Frauds In History’
BULLETIN: Songkram Roy Shachaisere, a sidebar figure in the AdSurfDaily Ponzi scheme story, has been indicted with several others in what federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York are calling “one of the largest international penny stock frauds in history.” The probe “used wiretaps in the United States and undercover agents in foreign…
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Full Statement Of SEC On Criminal Conviction, Prison Sentence, Restitution Order And Civil Liability Of Legisi HYIP Ponzi Operator Gregory N. McKnight
EDITOR’S NOTE: As the PP Blog reported on Aug. 6, Legisi HYIP Ponzi-scheme operator Gregory N. McKnight was sentenced to 188 months in federal prison. McKnight is 53. He was ordered taken into custody immediately after sentencing last week and is listed as “in transit” to an unspecified detention facility. Legisi was promoted in part…