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A Fraudster Loses to the SEC But Beats the Clock on Penalties – Bloomberg

By Securities Docket on June 27, 2019, 11:35 am

Over the course of 12 years, Charles Kokesh quietly misappropriated more than $30 million from investors, a jury found in 2014. Kokesh, now 71, cultivated some expensive and unusual hobbies, such as importing Argentine polo ponies and participating in cowboy-style shooting competitions, according to trial testimony. But the really unusual part of the story is how the U.S. Supreme Court decided he wouldn’t have to pay back most of the cash.

via A Fraudster Loses to the SEC But Beats the Clock on Penalties – Bloomberg.

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