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June 25, 2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced today that it has obtained an emergency court order to halt an alleged Ponzi-like scheme operated by Small Business Capital Corp. (“SB Capital”) and its principal Mark Feathers (“Feathers”). According to the Commission, SB Capital and Feathers raised $42 million by selling securities issued by two mortgage investment funds […]
June 5, 2012
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission can do a better job of overseeing the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a government report found. While the SEC routinely inspects many regulatory programs run by Wall Street’s industry-funded regulator FINRA, it doesn’t review whether FINRA’s rules for the securities industry are effective, according to a Government Accountability Office […]
May 14, 2012
On May 10, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a California-based real estate company and its owners with defrauding potential investors by boasting a false company track record to tout their purported real estate expertise while concealing the bankruptcy of their previous company. The SEC alleges that Michael J. Stewart, John J. Packard, and […]
May 2, 2012
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or Finra, has ordered Citigroup Inc. (C), Morgan Stanley (MS), UBS AG (UBS) and Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) to pay a combined $9.1 million for allegedly improper sales of leveraged and inverse exchange-traded funds. Wall Street’s self-regulator fined the companies a total of more than $7.3 million and also […]
April 17, 2012
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (Commission) announced that on April 10, 2012, the Honorable Sidney A. Fitzwater of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas enjoined Ryan M. Reynolds of Dallas, TX, Timothy T. Page of Malibu, CA, Steven Fischer of Bonita Springs, FL, Phillip W. Offill, Jr., a […]