March 9, 2016-Austin, Texas The Texas Lawyer reports that Patrick Lanier, a former Austin attorney, began a 17 year prison sentence for assisting Harris Ballow, an international fugitive, defraud 500…
read moreFebruary 24, 2016- Dallas, Texas The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) has reprimanded and fined Donald Lee Laseter $15,000 for acting as an investment adviser when he was not registered…
read moreFebruary 23, 2016- El Paso, Texas CBS 7 reports that Mexican businessman Roberto Trinidad Del Carpio Frescas of Chihuahua was convicted by a federal jury on 24 counts of wire…
read moreFebruary 18, 2016- The Texas State Securities Board reprimanded LPL Financial and ordered the company to pay a $95,000 fine for supervisory failures that led to one of their brokers…
read moreFebruary 22, 2016- Grapevine, Texas United Development Funding IV (UDF IV) reports that they have been subpoenaed to turn over company documents to a grand jury. In an SEC filing…
read moreFebruary 8, 2016- Austin , Texas The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) has filed a Notice of Hearing to determine whether PTI Securities & Futures, L.P. should by reprimanded and…
read moreFebruary 16, 2016- Carrollton, Texas The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) has suspended Ronald Eugene Harrison of Carrollton, Texas, for 90 days and assessed a fine of $5,000 to resolve…
read moreFebruary 2, 2016- Sherman, Texas News 12 KXII reports that Justin Spearman, a 27 year old graduate of Baylor University pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Christine A. Nowak to…
read moreFebruary 1, 2016- Austin, Texas Texas Securities Commissioner John Morgan ordered Mississippi based SoBell Corp. and its owner, Andrew Gamber of Jonesboro, Arkansas, to stop selling an investment called “Pension…
read moreJanuary 15, 2016- Austin, Texas The FBI announced that Rose Marie O’Reilly, 63, of La Grange, TX, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison in connection with a $1,4…
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