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Financial and Investment Fraud

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January 27, 2020

Catalyst Capital Advisors LLC and its CEO Jerry Szilagyi will pay more than $10 million -- $8.9 million in disgorgement and 1.6 million in civil monetary penalties -- to resolve claims that they failed to adequately supervise employees including the portfolio manager of Catalyst's Hedged Futures Strategy Fund, Edward Walczak, who was separately charged.   Catalyst and Walczak made materially misleading statements about the risk management strategies employed by the fund, including false statements that stop-loss measures and risk monitoring were in place.  The misrepresentations led investors and investment advisors to believe that the fund was a safer investment than it actually was. CFTC, SEC

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets, Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

Top Ten SEC and CFTC Recoveries of 2019

Posted  01/24/20
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2019 was another busy year for the SEC and CFTC.  Once again, the SEC netted hundreds of millions of dollars in penalties and fines from companies and individuals accused of defrauding investors, breaching fiduciary duties, and violating the securities laws.  And that’s in addition to the SEC’s robust FCPA enforcement in 2019.  Meanwhile, the CFTC continued to root out market manipulators and other fraudsters...

Tagged in: Accounting Fraud, CFTC Whistleblower Reward Program, FCPA, Financial and Investment Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Market Manipulation and Trading Violations, Misrepresentations, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Securities Fraud, Top 10,

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Top Ten Financial and Healthcare Fraud Prison Sentences of 2019

Posted  01/23/20
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Financial and healthcare fraud schemes can result not just in civil investigations and liability, but also in prison time for the individuals involved.  In 2019, the Department of Justice obtained substantial prison sentences in numerous cases involving healthcare and financial frauds, helping to bring justice to the patients, investors, or individuals harmed by criminal fraudsters.  Many of the fraudulent...

Tagged in: Anti-Kickback and Stark, Criminal Proceedings, Financial and Investment Fraud, Healthcare Fraud, Ponzi Schemes, Top 10,

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January 21, 2020

Australian proprietary trading firm Propex Derivatives Pty Ltd has been ordered to pay $1 million and submit to a deferred prosecution agreement after a former trader, Jiongsheng (Jim) Zhao, was found to have engaged in spoofing on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange E-mini S&P 500 futures market.  His actions caused about $464,300 in market losses over the course of the five year scheme.  CFTC; DOJ

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Financial and Investment Fraud, Fraud in CFTC-Regulated Markets,

Top Ten Federal Financial Fraud Recoveries of 2019

Posted  01/17/20
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The U.S. government has a range on enforcement options for financial and investment fraud, including those that provide for whistleblower rewards such as the SEC Whistleblower Program, the CFTC Whistleblower Program, and the IRS Whistleblower Program, each of which are very much open for business and continuing to pay millions of dollars in whistleblower awards in exchange for their assistance in exposing...

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud, FIRREA, Housing and Mortgage Fraud, Top 10,

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January 13, 2020

San Francisco-based fund advisor Michael Rothenberg has been ordered to pay more than $31 million for misappropriating millions of dollars in client funds.  Instead of investing clients funds in emerging technology, the head of Rothenberg Ventures LLC allegedly funneled it toward personal business ventures and events, in violation of the antifraud provisions of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.  As part of the settlement, Rothenberg has also agreed to be barred from the securities industry for five years.  SEC

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

Top Ten Non-Healthcare False Claims Act Recoveries of 2019

Posted  01/10/20
False Claims Act
This year, federal and state governments recovered hundreds of millions of dollars thanks to whistleblowers who came forward to report fraud under the federal False Claims Act and state False Claims Acts.  Whistleblowers reported a wide-range of misconduct involving government contracts, including fraud by defense contractors, airlines, and even a major research university.  Defendants’ deception ran the gamut...

Tagged in: Bribery and Bid-Rigging, Cybersecurity and Data Breaches, Defense Contract Fraud, FCA Federal, FCA State, Financial and Investment Fraud, Government Programs Fraud, Grant and Research Fraud, Importance of Whistleblowers, Price Fixing, Pricing Fraud, Top 10, Visa Fraud, Whistleblower Case,

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January 9, 2020

Registered broker-dealer and investment adviser J.P. Morgan Securities LLC will refund over $16 million to customers, and pay penalties and interest of $1.8 million to resolve claims that the company failed to provide certain retail retirement account and charitable organization brokerage customers with sales charge waivers and lower fee share classes when selling certain mutual funds to them. SEC

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Financial Institution Fraud, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

January 9, 2020

After being charged with defrauding brokerage customers in May 2018 and pleading guilty in December 2018, a former registered investment advisor, Steven Pagartanis, has been sentenced to over 14 years in prison and ordered to pay $6.5 million for orchestrating the 18-year, $13 million fraud.  Pagartanis had targeted elderly women and promised an 8% return on investments.  However, he secretly laundered their investments and used the money on personal expenses, causing investors to lose over $9 million in total.   USAO EDNY

Tagged in: Criminal Proceedings, Financial and Investment Fraud, Misrepresentations, Ponzi Schemes,

December 16, 2019

Steven (Kaveh) Shayan and Kevin (Kaveh) Shayan, who operated the website WeTakeSection8.com, have been permanently banned from offering rental listing services and ordered to pay more than $6 million following a complaint filed by the FTC.  The Shayans and their website falsely claimed that their subscription websites provided accurate, up-to-date rental listings that were approved for Section 8 housing vouchers, including properties with which they had exclusive listing agreements,  when, in fact, most of the listed properties were either unavailable or did not accept Section 8 housing vouchers. FTC

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, Housing and Mortgage Fraud,

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