October 19, 2015 Former Coastal Equities broker Michael Donnelly of Lecanto, Florida, admitting defrauding his clients and to disgorge over $2.2 million. In addition he consented to an SEC order…
read moreMarch 29, 2016-Garland, Texas The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) announced that Derek A. Nelson was sentenced to 19 years in connection with a $37 million fraud he operated selling…
read moreUPDATE ON CHARLES FACKRELL-December 2016-Charles Fackrell, 37, of Booneville, N. Carolina was sentenced to 63 months in jail according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for operating a $1.4 million Ponzi…
read moreMarch 9, 2016- Rockwall, Texas The Rowlett Lakeshore Times reports that Mark Lee Cleaton, 34, of Rockwall, was sentenced to 80 months in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution…
read moreMarch 2, 2016-Texarkana, Texas The US Attorney’s Office announced the indictment of eleven individuals on federal charges including conspiracy to commit an offense and to defraud the U.S. government. The…
read moreMarch 21, 2016-Atlanta, GA Attorney Bennett L. Kight, 75, was indicted on federal charges of mail fraud and accused of misappropriating $2 million from an elderly client while he was acting…
read moreSeptember 2016 UPDATE–Eduardo Diaz was permanently barred from the securities industry by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on 9/7/2016, after pleading guilty to one count of mail fraud.…
read moreMarch 14, 2016- Fort Myers, Florida The Department of Justice announced today that Dorian Garcia, age 31, was sentenced to 6 and one half years in federal prison for a…
read moreMarch 8, 2016- Greenville, South Carolina The United States Attorney’s Office for District of South Carolina announced that Claus C. Foerster, 55, of Spartanburg, South Carolina was indicted by a…
read more1/21/2016- Grand Rapids, MI David McQueen‘s conviction and 30 year prison sentence for mail fraud, money laundering and tax charges was upheld by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati.…
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