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March 20, 2011
In a potentially costly blow to the brokerage firm Securities America, a federal judge in Dallas ruled on Friday that hundreds of arbitration claims against the company should move forward rather than being stuffed into a catch-all class-action lawsuit. The case, which was heard by Judge Royal Furgeson, stems from litigation against Securities America, a […]
February 19, 2011
Today, the Commission filed a complaint against Jonathan R. Curshen, 46, a Sarasota, Florida resident who allegedly founded and led Red Sea Management Ltd., (“Red Sea”), a Costa Rican asset protection company that, according to the complaint, effected pump-and-dump schemes on behalf of its clients and laundered millions of dollars in trading proceeds out of […]
February 17, 2011
Daniel Spitzer promised his investors a good deal: low risk and sizeable returns if they agreed to put their money into a fund he told them he invested primarily in foreign currency trading, authorities announced today. But instead of investing, Spitzer took most the money he obtained from about 400 people and used it to […]
February 16, 2011
A man has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for his role in a Ponzi scheme that scammed more than $14 million from hundreds of Haitian-American investors in South Florida and New Jersey. U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra sentenced 37-year-old Ronnie Bass Jr. of Delray Beach on Friday and ordered him to pay […]
February 14, 2011
Prosecutors are expected to ask a judge today to send a man to prison for 15 years for running a Ponzi scheme that took in about $30 million as well as a scam that preyed on homeowners facing foreclosure. Juan Rangel of Downey, who is already behind bars awaiting sentencing for a 2009 conviction for […]