Financial Investigations

The Status Quo and Deceptive Advertising The Federal Trade Commission approves a settlement with Telomerase Activation Sciences, Inc., for deceptive advertising. The TA product line...

Fraudulent Revenue Recognition Just when Enron Corporation is a fading memory, a California-based energy storage and power delivery product manufacturer emerges. And this time, leveraging...

Wells Fargo agreed to pay $1 billion in penalty to settle its regulatory violations related to its auto loans and mortgage businesses. The U.S. Consumer...

Rogue Broker-Dealer Electronic Transaction Clearing (ETC), a registered broker-dealer headquartered in Los Angeles, California, agrees to settle various Securities and Exchange Commission charges. The charges...

Cryptocurrency Chain The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) files a complaint in federal court, halting the activities of fours individuals promoting deceptive money-making schemes involving cryptocurrencies....

Phony Debt Relief Operation Three mastermind scam artists, Jeremy Marcus, Craig Smith, and Yisbet Segrea ran an extensive phony debt relief operation. The Federal Trade...

The New York Attorney General’s Office opened an investigation into 13 cryptocurrency exchanges. On Tuesday, AG’s office launched the Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative to investigate...

The Hill reports that all Americans may not fully understand the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. An Overview of the Tax Cuts and...

Prominent Pastor Defrauds Elderly Investors Late March, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charges Kirbyjon Caldwell, Senior Pastor at Windsor Village United Methodist Church in...

Unregistered Securities and China-Based Issuer The Securities and Exchange Commission reaches a settlement for charges against Wall Street behemoth, Merrill Lynch. The circumstances include the...