Showing posts with label securities fraud. Show all posts
Showing posts with label securities fraud. Show all posts
Saturday, April 30, 2011

New Jersey-based Investment Adviser Pleads Guilty to $13.6 Million Ponzi Scheme

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Sandra M. Venetis , 59, of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to charges she defrauded at least 50 investors of more than $7 mil...
Friday, May 7, 2010

Execs At NYC-Based Spongetech Charged With Financial Statement Fraud & Obstruction

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Two top executives of New York City-based Spongetech Delivery Systems Inc . were arrested Wednesday and charged with fraud in an alleged sch...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Florida Man Accused In $880 Million Ponzi Scheme Case

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Nevin K. Shapiro , 41, of Miami Beach, Florida, has been charged with money laundering and securities fraud in connection with allegedly ope...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Colorado Investment Fraud Artist Scams Investors Again To Pay For Lawyer

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Hamilton Alan Bird of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was indicted yesterday on charges he defrauded investors out of nearly $700,000 which was...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Colorado Man Pleads Guilty To Operating Ponzi Scheme That Bilked $30+ Million From Investors

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Mark Jay Jackson , 55, of Denver, Colorado, pleaded guilty to charges he operated a Ponzi-type investment fraud scheme that may have bilked ...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Update: New York Ponzi Schemer Sentenced To 9 Years

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Edward T. Stein , 59, of Manhattan, New York, was sentenced to 9 years in prison this week for securities fraud and wire fraud in connection...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Arts Patron Sentenced For Bilking Investors Out Of $22 Million

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Alberto W. Vilar , 69, of New York and San Francisco, was sentenced to 9 years in prison for defrauding some 1,400 investors out of about $2...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty In $25 Million Ponzi Scheme Case

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J.V. Huffman Jr ., 46, of Conover, North Carolina, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 14 counts of securities fraud and 14 counts of obtaining pro...
Monday, November 23, 2009

Louisiana Businessman Charged In $20 Million Alleged Ponzi Scheme

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Matthew B. Pizzolato , 26, of Tickfaw, Louisiana, has been charged in a 64-count indictment with securities fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, m...
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Alabama Bookkeeper Charged With Embezzling Nearly $900K

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Daphne Miller Brooks , 50, of Woodstock, Alabama, has been indicted on charges she embezzled $878,480 from Equity Development Corporation , ...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Update: Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Sentenced In Securities Fraud Case

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William "Boots" Del Biaggio III , 42, of Menlo Park, California, was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for defrauding inves...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Update On Florida Ponzi Scheme Case: Nadel Is Indicted On 15 Fraud Counts

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Arthur G. Nadel , 76, of Sarasota, Florida, has been formally indicted on 15 counts of securities fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud in connec...

Update On Tennessee TARP Ponzi Schemer: Grigg Is Indicted

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Gordon Burns Grigg , 46, of Nashville, Tennessee was formally indicted last week on charges he operated a Ponzi scheme with firm, ProTrust M...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Update On Massive Ohio Corporate Fraud Case: National Century's Paulsen Sentenced To 30 Years

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Lance K. Poulsen , 65, the former founder and CEO of Dublin, Ohio-based National Century Financial Enterprises , was sentenced Friday to 30 ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

New York City Art Dealer Charged In $88 Million Fraud

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Lawrence B. Salander , 59, of Millbrook, New York, and the proprietor of New York City-based Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC , was arre...
Monday, March 23, 2009

Indiana Woman Charged With Fraud & Misappropriation Of Invesment Funds

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Dorothy M. Geisler-Tragardh , of McCordsville, Indiana, was charged Thursday with one count of securities fraud and 10 counts of theft for a...

2 Aides To Former NY Comptroller Hevesi Indicted On Kickback Charges

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Hank Morris , formerly a political advisor and fundraiser to New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi (D-NY), and David Loglisci, formerly the chie...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Madoff Accountant Charged With Fraud

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David G. Friehling , 49, of Pomona, New York, and Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant, was arrested on fraud charges today. Friehling,...
Thursday, March 12, 2009

Madoff Pleads Guilty To All 11 Charges

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Bernard L. Madoff , 70, of New York City, pleaded guilty today to a 11 count fraud Information, admitting that, as head and sole principal ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Arizona Attorney Pleads Guilty To "Pump & Dump" Stock Manipulation Schemes

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David B. Stocker , 49, of Phoenix, Arizona and an attorney by training, pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges admitting that he defraud...