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SEC Appeals Judge Rakoff’s Rejection of Citigroup Settlement

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission appealed a federal judge’s decision to reject its proposed $285 million settlement with Citigroup. The appeal, filed today in the US Court of Appeals in New York, challenged U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff’s rejection last month of the settlement, which involved claims that Citigroup misled investors in a $1 billion financial […]

Tom Petters Conviction and Sentence Upheld by Appeals Court

A federal appeals court Friday upheld the 2009 conviction and 50-year prison sentence of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters, who was found guilty of orchestrating a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Petters got a fair trial.  A three-judge panel rejected defense claims that the U.S. District Judge Richard […]

SEC freezes assets of four Chinese citizens charged with insider trading

On December 5, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged four Chinese citizens and a Chinese-based entity with insider trading and obtained an emergency court order to freeze their assets after they reaped more than $2.7 million in profits by trading in advance of a recent public announcement of a merger agreement between London-based Pearson […]

SEC halts prime bank scheme operated by D.C. law firm and Pennsylvania company

On November 30, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed an enforcement action under seal in federal court in Washington D.C. and obtained an emergency court order to halt a prime bank scheme that defrauded at least 13 investors out of more than $2 million since August 2010. The Court unsealed the action on December […]

SEC Resolves Case Against Hedge Fund Adviser and Owner

On November 17 Judge John F. Grady of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a final judgment against Jeffrey R. Neufeld (Neufeld) and Paridon Capital Management LLC (Paridon) of Elgin, Illinois for defrauding the TCM Global Strategy Fund (TCM Fund or the fund), a hedge fund, and its investors. Without […]