Tag: SEC
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BULLETIN: SEC Charges 2 Executives Of Purported Clean-Coal Firm In Alleged $43 Million Offering Fraud; 1 Of Them Has Conviction For Bank Fraud And Was Arrested Dec. 1 Amid Allegations He Was Flogging New Offer In Violation Of Plea Agreement
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in Minnesota, alleging that two executives of a clean-coal tech firm repeatedly lied to investors and that one of the executives had a conviction for bank fraud — a fact not disclosed to investors when the company was trawling for cash and using unregistered brokers to do…
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BULLETIN: First, Notre Dame’s ‘Rudy’ — Now, Willie Gault Of The ‘Super Bowl Shuffle’ Chicago Bears; SEC Charges Former NFL Wide Receiver In Alleged Stock Caper; Feds Arrest Lawyer
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in the Central District of California to charge former U.S. Olympian and NFL wide receiver Willie Gault in an alleged stock scheme involving Heart Tronics Inc. Gault, 51, was a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team that boycotted the summer games in Moscow. He later played…
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UPDATE: Criminal Prosecutors Say Jason Bo-Alan Beckman Stole Nearly $4 Million From Elderly Husband And Wife; Wife A Stroke Victim With ‘Hemispheric Paralysis,’ According To Court Records; Beckman’s Manipulations Amount To ‘Contumacious Disobedience,’ SEC Says
UPDATE: Facing a margin deficit of more than $10 million and at risk of having his trading account closed in February 2008, Jason Bo-Alan Beckman — a figure in the Trevor Cook Ponzi scheme — sought to address the whopping shortfall and prop up the monumental fraud by stealing about $3.9 million from an elderly…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: SEC Says Utah Father And Son Were At Helm Of $220 Million Ponzi Scheme That Traded On Faith
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: The SEC has gone to federal court in Utah to halt what it described as a $220 million real-estate Ponzi scheme that appeared to grow in part because the alleged operators used their membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to disarm skeptics. A “complex web of…
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UPDATE: Top Federal Prosecutor Describes Edward L. Moskop As ‘Financial Predator’; Judge Imposes Maximum Prison Term On Southern Illinois Swindler; St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reports Woman Who Survived Nazi Labor Camp Was Among The Victims
Recidivist huckster Edward L. Moskop was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge William Stiehl of the Southern District of Illinois. Among the victims of his fraud scheme was an 85-year-old woman who survived a Nazi labor camp during World War II, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. At Moskop’s sentencing…
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BULLETIN: SEC Says Stiefel Laboratories Inc. Lowballed Employees And Other Shareholders, Ripping Them Off In Alleged $110 Million Stock-Buyback Scheme
BULLETIN: The SEC has gone to federal court in the Southern District of Florida, alleging that Stiefel Laboratories Inc. was buying back stock from its employees and shareholders at “severely undervalued prices” and caused losses to its own people over a period of years to the tune of $110 million. The firm and former CEO…
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BULLETIN: Former Radio Host John Farahi Indicted In Alleged Ponzi Scheme; His Attorney Also Indicted Amid Allegations He Obstructed SEC Probe
BULLETIN: John Farahi, a former Los Angeles radio host who once was a member of the city council of Reno, Nev., has been indicted on dozens of counts of defrauding investors and banks out of at least $20 million, federal prosecutors in the Central District of California said. David Tamman, an attorney, was indicted amid…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: SEC Says D.C. Attorney Brynee K. Baylor Was Running Prime-Bank Swindle With Frank L. Pavlico III, A Felon On Probation In Case Involving ‘Drug Trafficking’ Proceeds
UPDATED 10:04 A.M. ET (DEC. 8, U.S.A.) Frank L. Pavlico III — convicted in 2007 of felony conspiracy to conduct financial transactions involving the proceeds of drug trafficking and released in 2008 after serving his 10-month prison term — has been arrested for wire fraud by the FBI in an alleged prime-bank swindle that occurred while…
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: FBI Undercover Operation Leads To Charges Against 13 Individuals In Alleged Penny-Stock Caper; SEC Halts Trading In 7 Companies
URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: Thirteen individuals, including lawyers, corporate officers and a stock promoter, have been charged criminally in an FBI sting aimed at microcap fraud. The SEC has suspended trading in seven companies: 1st Global Financial Inc. (FGFB), based in Las Vegas; Augrid Global Holdings Corp. (AGHD), based in Houston; ComCam International Inc.…
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‘Uniform’ Ponzi Swindler Richard Elkinson, 78, Sentenced To 102 Months In Federal Prison; 20-Year Scheme Collapsed After Arrest Of Bernard Madoff
Richard Elkinson, the 78-year-old Ponzi swindler whose promissory notes scheme gathered $29 million over 20 years, has been sentenced to 102 months in federal prison. Elkinson resided in Framingham, Mass., and told investors he was in the business of providing uniforms to the government and other entities. But it was all a scam that lured…