Financial Investigations April 18, 2018
Phony Debt Relief Scammers Pay $35 Million in Consumer Redress
Phony Debt Relief Operation Three mastermind scam artists, Jeremy Marcus, Craig Smith, and Yisbet Segrea ran an extensive phony debt…
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Financial Investigations April 18, 2018
Phony Debt Relief Operation Three mastermind scam artists, Jeremy Marcus, Craig Smith, and Yisbet Segrea ran an extensive phony debt…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 17, 2018
Prominent Pastor Defrauds Elderly Investors Late March, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charges Kirbyjon Caldwell, Senior Pastor at Windsor…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 17, 2018
Unregistered Securities and China-Based Issuer The Securities and Exchange Commission reaches a settlement for charges against Wall Street behemoth, Merrill…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 17, 2018
Pump-and-Dump: By Any Means Necessary The Securities and Exchange Commission charges Wedbush Securities Inc., for failing to supervise employee Timary…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 16, 2018
Top Level Executives and a Revolving Door Mozido Inc, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a financial technology (FinTech) company that…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 16, 2018
Initial Coin Offering: Raise The Money and Run? Centra Tech co-founders Sohrab “Sam” Sharma and Robert Farkas are in “hot…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 16, 2018
Government Impostor Scam Artists In an increasingly hi-tech world, fraudsters are forced to be more creative than ever. This time,…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 16, 2018
SEC Freezes Longfin Corporation Stock Sale Proceeds The Securities and Exchange Commission continues to investigate the circumstances surrounding the massive…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 16, 2018
Investment Adviser Firms Fined Geneos Wealth Management Inc., Securities America Advisors Inc., and PNC Investments LLC, are three investment adviser…
By Peter Moreno
Financial Investigations April 16, 2018
Senior Citizens Fall Victim to Ponzi Scheme On April 6, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a Texas…
By Peter Moreno