Tag: U.S. District Judge Graham C. Mullen
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URGENT >> BULLETIN >> MOVING: New Filings By SEC Suggest Zeek Probe Began In April 2012 Or Earlier; Agency, Receiver Oppose Motions To Intervene By Possible Clawback Targets
UPDATED 9:46 A.M. ET (JAN. 13, U.S.A.) New court filings by the SEC in the Zeek Ponzi scheme case in the Western District of North Carolina strongly suggest that the Zeek probe was under way at least by April 17, 2012. On that date, according to the filings, an IT specialist for the SEC was…
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Nearly $2 Million Allegedly At Stake For 3 Arizona Zeek Affiliates Who Received Subpoenas, Filings Say
“[Zeek operator Paul] Burks is solely responsible for determining the amount of ‘net profits’ to share in the Retail Profit Pool . . . Defendants represent that daily awards are calculated by dividing ‘up to 50%’ of daily net profits by the number of Profit Points outstanding among all Qualified Affiliates. This calculation results in…
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The Incredible Reach Of Zeek: Receiver Files In Guam
In yet another indicator of the incredible reach of the alleged Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme, the court-appointed receiver has filed court paperwork in Guam. Guam is a U.S. island territory “approximately 3,300 miles West of Hawaii, and 1,500 miles east of the Philippines and south of Japan,” according to the website of Naval Base Guam.…
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BULLETIN: Receiver Re-Serves Zeek Member Who Sought To Quash Subpoena
BULLETIN: An apparent Florida member of the Zeek Rewards “program” who claimed last week that the court-appointed receiver situated in North Carolina had served a subpoena improperly from the Tar Heel state via U.S. Mail now has been served again — this time through a more expensive process that involved certified U.S. Mail, FedEx and…
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Firm Assisting In Zeek Receivership Probe Has Another High-Profile Case; New York Times Reports That Kroll Investigative Firm Discovered ‘Well-Concealed Ponzi Scheme’ At Kabul Bank And ‘114 Rubber Stamps For Fake Companies’
A company retained by the court-appointed receiver in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme case received a prominent mention in the New York Times yesterday. The company, the Kroll investigative firm, uncovered a massive Ponzi fraud at Kabul Bank in Afghanistan in which hundreds of millions of dollars were siphoned from depositors to benefit a “narrow…
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STUNNING: Nearly 1 BILLION Zeek Transactions Over 18 Months, Receiver Says; ‘Sheer Quantity Of Data’ And ‘Inadequate And Incomplete’ Records Necessitate Delay In Filing Of Liquidation Plan
EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s this simple: Ponzi = Pain — and even “ordinary” Ponzi schemes often result in extraordinary paper chases. The Zeek case may be setting a new standard for the extraordinary. The receiver in the Zeek Rewards Ponzi scheme case informed a federal judge today that “the Receivership Team is still in the process…