January 31, 2020

A former financial adviser, Li Lin Hsu, AKA Yilin Hsu Lee, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison and ordered to pay $5.3 million in restitution to the 20 victims of her $8.1 million Ponzi scheme.  Hsu began her scheme in 2014 while employed at Ameriprise Financial, promising victim investors, including her own relatives, that their funds would go toward low risk municipal bonds when in fact they were going toward homes in affluent neighborhoods, a luxury car, a luxury vacation, and luxury goods for Hsu herself. When Ameriprise discovered the misconduct in 2015, Hsu was fired and then barred by FINRA from working in the investment business, but not before she began her own companies, American Trading Group LLC and American Capital Republic, Inc, where she managed to defraud additional investors.  USAO CDCA

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