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January 5, 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Texas-based financial services firm Life Partners Holdings, Inc. and three of its senior executives for their involvement in a fraudulent disclosure and accounting scheme involving life settlements. Life Partners is a Nasdaq-traded company that generates virtually all of its revenues from brokering life settlements. Life settlements involve the […]
Over two grueling weeks, convicted Florida Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein laid out in incriminating detail how far the tentacles stretched in his $1.2 billion fraud, pointing the finger at numerous lawyers, bankers, business people, relatives, friends and unnamed law enforcement officials and politicians. The testimony, made public in hundreds of pages of transcripts, could form […]
December 25, 2011
On December 15, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil injunctive action against Stephen M. Folan, a former registered representative in the Chicago office of FTN Financial Securities Corp. (“FTN”), for assisting Sentinel Management Group, Inc. (“Sentinel”), a bankrupt former investment adviser, in its fraud against its advisory clients. The SEC’s complaint alleges […]
December 24, 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, December 16, 2011, charged six former top executives of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) with securities fraud, alleging they knew and approved of misleading statements claiming the companies had minimal holdings of higher-risk mortgage loans, including […]
December 20, 2011
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges today against Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger and twelve other individuals who participated in a pump-and-dump scheme involving the stock of Rudy Nutrition, a now defunct Nevada corporation. The SEC’s complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, alleges that Rudy Ruettiger, who is known […]