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Join the Securities Litigation and Enforcement Group on LinkedInSEC Charges Three Sales Agents at StraightPath Venture Partners With Fraud and Unregistered Broker Activity
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Scott Hollender, Gabriel Migliano, Jr., and Frank Vecchio for selling interests in shares of pre-IPO companies on behalf of StraightPath Venture Partners LLC, despite not being registered broker-dealers, and for misleading investors about the fees associated with those investments. The Commission previously charged StraightPath Venture Partners, StraightPath Management […]
SEC Charges Cannabis Company American Patriot Brands, CEO, and Others with Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged American Patriot Brands Inc. (APB), a cannabis cultivation and distribution company, its CEO, and five other entities and individuals for their participation in a long-running scheme in which they raised more than $30 million from more than one hundred investors across the country and siphoned off millions of […]
Guo Wengui Charged in Alleged $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy – WSJ
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with duping investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars to bankroll the purchase of a sprawling mansion, a 145-foot luxury yacht and other lavish items. Mr. Guo, also known as Kwok Ho Wan, was arrested Wednesday morning in New York and is charged with […]
SEC Charges Exiled Chinese Businessman Miles Guo and His Financial Advisor William Je in $850 Million Fraud Scheme
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged exiled Chinese businessman Miles Guo and his financial advisor William Je for their involvement in unregistered and fraudulent offerings that raised more than $850 million. According to the SEC’s complaint, since April 2020, Guo, also known as Ho Wan Kwok, Miles Kwok, Wengui Guo, and Brother Seven, and […]
Your Company Has Been Sued for Securities Fraud—Now What? | Insights | Jones Day
According to the Stanford Law School/Cornerstone Research Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, each year since 2001, with just one exception (2006), investors have filed more than 150 securities fraud class actions in the federal courts. More than 400 cases were filed each year between 2017 and 2019, and just shy of 200 were filed in 2022. […]
SEC Charges Ozy Media and its CEO Carlos Watson with Widespread Scheme to Defraud Investors
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged media and entertainment company Ozy Media Inc., its CEO Carlos R. Watson, Jr., its former COO Samir Rao, and its former Chief of Staff Suzee Han with defrauding investors of approximately $50 million through repeated misrepresentations concerning the company’s basic financial condition, business relationships, and fundraising efforts. Rao […]
How pervasive is corporate fraud? | SpringerLink
We provide a lower-bound estimate of the undetected share of corporate fraud. To identify the hidden part of the “iceberg,” we exploit Arthur Andersen’s demise, which triggered added scrutiny on Arthur Andersen’s former clients and thereby increased the detection likelihood of preexisting frauds. Our evidence suggests that in normal times only one-third of corporate frauds […]
Fraud Economy: How Current Economic Trends Lead to More Corporate Scams
This is what happens when cash is harder to find — say, after a sustained decline in the stock market or an enormous increase in the cost of borrowing money. First, there is what Bank of America called “corporate misery” as forward-looking numbers come in lower than projected. (That’s already happening.) Then that misery finds […]
SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against Defendant Charged in $43 Million Tribal Bonds Scheme
On January 10, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a final consent judgment against defendant Jason Sugarman, ordering him to pay over $10.2 million dollars in disgorgement, interest, and penalties. The judgment resolves the SEC’s charges against Sugarman for his role in a scheme to defraud ten […]
CoinDeal’s Bentleys Weren’t Real – Bloomberg
At the highest tier, a $100,000 investment, that’s a 56 million percent promised return, not even counting the Bentley, which I guess more than doubles your money right there. Also, I mean, imagine a world in which you put $25,000 into some investment and got back ELEVEN POINT TWO FIVE BILLION DOLLARS and they also gave […]