Tag: SEC
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BULLETIN: Now, A ‘Royalty Units’ Scam Pushed By Recidivist Senior Citizen And His Children And Involving Purported $11 Billion Gold Mine At 2 Ohio Gravel Pits, SEC Charges; ‘Flat Out Lies,’ Agency Says Of Claims Surrounding 3 Eagles Research & Development LLC
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Portland, Ore., alleging that a company led by a recidivist huckster and operating in the state sold investors into a “royalty units” scam involving a purported $11 billion gold mine in Ohio and the promise of “whopping returns.” Charged in the alleged caper were Harry Dean…
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BULLETIN: Missing Investment Adviser Named In SEC Civil Complaint Yesterday In Atlanta Has Been Charged Criminally In New York
BULLETIN: Aubrey Lee Price, the missing Georgia man sued by the SEC in an alleged $40 million investment-fraud caper that depleted “substantially all” of the reserves of a bank in Southern Georgia, has been charged criminally in New York with embezzling $17 million from the bank. The office of U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch of…
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Raymond Bitar, Full Tilt Poker CEO, Arrested; Gambling Site Linked To THREE U.S. Banks That Failed, Feds Say; ‘The On-Line Casino Become An Internet Ponzi Scheme,’ Top FBI Official Says
Three vulnerable U.S. banks that processed illegal gambling payments for Full Tilt Poker in exchange for investments in the institutions later failed, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York said yesterday. The failures of Sunfirst Bank in St. George, Utah, and All American Bank and New City Bank — both of which were…
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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…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Peter Madoff Charged Criminally, Civilly; Bernard Madoff’s Brother ‘Enabled The Largest Fraud In Human History’ And Gained Millions Of Dollars, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Says
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Peter Madoff, the brother of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, has pleaded guilty in New York to a two-count superseding information charging him with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, tax fraud, mail fraud, ERISA fraud and falsifying records of an investment adviser. The government is seeking a staggering forfeiture order of…