UPDATE FEBRUARY 2016- FBI RAIDS UDF OFFICES IN GRAPEVINE, TEXAS—See this for details. December 16, 2015-Grapevine, Texas United Development Funding IV (UDF) , a real estate investment trust (REIT) based…
read moreNovember 16, 2015 Virtus Investment Advisers agreed to pay $16.5 million in fines to settle charges with the SEC that it publicized false performance data for the AlphaSector exchange-traded fund…
read moreSeptember 21, 2015-McKinney, Texas Trendon T. Shavers, 33, admitted to running a Ponzi scheme involving bitcoin, a virtual currency, according to the Wall Street Journal. Sentencing is scheduled for February…
read moreSeptember 21 2015- Washington DC First Eagle Investment Management and FEF Distributors was charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission with improperly using mutual fund assets to pay for…
read moreSeptember 3, 2015- Boca Raton/Plantation, Florida The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Manny J. Shulman and David K. Herschman were charged with violating the securities laws for their involvement…
read moreSeptember 8, 2015- North Palm Beach, Florida Bankrate Inc (RATE.N) resolved an action filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it engaged in accounting fraud to ensure that…
read moreAugust 27, 2015 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has alleged that Harrison Schumacher and his two Los Angeles companies, Quantum Energy LLC and Quaneco LLC, raised over $12.3 million…
read moreAugust 20, 2015-West Palm Beach, FL Moshe Yehuda Dunoff was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with participating in a boiler room fraud that raised over $1.5 million…
read moreAugust 13, 2015-Washington DC The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Edward Jones, a brokerage firm headquartered in St. Louis, and Stina R. Wishman, the former head of its…
read moreAugust 3, 2015-Hoiuston, Texas Frederick Alan Voight of Richmond, Texas, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with defrauding over 300 investors in a $114 million Ponzi scheme. Investors…
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