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Misrepresentations

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August 6, 2021

Colorado resident Wayde McKelvy was sentenced to 18 years in prison and ordered to pay $37 million in restitution following conviction on charges related to his operation of a Ponzi scheme.  McKelvy and others operated Mantria Corporation, which they claimed offered huge returns by investing in real estate and green energy projects.  Through these misrepresentations, defendants obtained more than $54 million in funds from duped investors.  USAO ED PA

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

July 21, 2021

Suneet Singal, First Capital Real Estate Investments, LLC, and related entities, agreed to pay fines totaling over $7 million to resolve claims that they made material misrepresentations and omissions concerning First Capital Real Estate Trust Inc., a real estate investment trust.  The SEC alleged that defendants misrepresented the REIT’s property holdings, and that Singal fraudulently directed funds to his own use.  Singal was barred from the securities industry for at least ten years.  SEC

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

July 14, 2021

Following a lawsuit filed by the FTC in 2018, online lender LendingClub has agreed to pay $18 million to settle claims of deceiving consumers about hidden fees, misrepresenting consumers’ approvals for loans, and withdrawing money from consumer bank accounts without authorization.  In addition to the monetary penalty, LendingClub is now required to clearly and conspicuously disclose all fees, as well as the total amount of funds being borrowed.  FTC

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

July 13, 2021

Special purpose acquisition corporation Stable Road Acquisition Company, its CEO Brian Kabot, and the SPAC’s proposed merger target Momentus Inc. will collectively pay penalties of $8 million to resolve charges that Momentus, a space transportation company, and its CEO Mikhael Kokorich, misrepresented the company's technology and ability to secure required governmental licenses, and that Stable Road repeated those misleading statements in public filings associated with its proposed merger with Momentus.  Stable Road claimed to have conducted extensive due diligence of Momentus, but it never reviewed the results of Momentus’s in-space test or received sufficient documents relevant to government licensing issues and, in particular, national security risks associated with Kokorich. SEC

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

July 13, 2021

A subsidiary of Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) has agreed to pay $97 million in restitution and make significant reforms to settle charges for making misleading statements and failing to disclose conflicts of interests to tens of thousands of customers.  Between 2012 and 2018, advisors with TIAA-CREF Individual & Institutional Services LLC (TC Services) pressured customers—many of them teachers and public sector employees—to move their investments from low-cost employer-sponsored retirement plans to higher-cost individually-managed accounts, which generated hundreds of millions of dollars in fees for TIAA.  NY AG; SEC

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

June 30, 2021

Following its 2020 SEC penalty, Robinhood Financial LLC was ordered to pay $70 million by FINRA -- a $57 million penalty and $12.6 million in restitution and interest to harmed customers -- to resolve charges that the firm provided false and misleading information, improperly authorized customers for options trading without appropriate due diligence, and failed to reasonably supervise the technology it used to provide core broker-dealer services including for the acceptance and execution of customer orders.  FINRA

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

June 29, 2021

A man in Minnesota who allegedly defrauded two dozen investor clients out of $2.3 million has been sentenced to 7 years in prison.  Isaiah Leslie Goodman, a registered investment advisor and owner of Becoming Financial Group, Inc., Becoming Financial Advisory Services L.L.C., and MoneyVerbs, allegedly lied to prospective and existing clients while misappropriating their funds for his own use.  As part of his sentence, Goodman will forfeit some of his ill-gotten gains.  USAO MN

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

June 24, 2021

Gateway One Lending & Finance, LLC, which originates, securitizes, and services auto loans, agreed to pay $6.5 million in disgorgement, prejudgment interest, and civil penalties to resolve charges that it understated the historic losses of its auto loans and overstated the projected future performance for six auto loan-backed securitizations.  SEC

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

June 22, 2021

Loci Inc., whose InnVenn platform provides intellectual property search services for inventors and others users, will pay $7.6 million to resolve SEC charges arising from its unregistered initial coin offering of "LOCIcoins."  In the course of the ICO, Loci and its CEO John Wise allegedly misrepresented the company’s revenues, number of employees, and InnVenn’s user base. SEC

Tagged in: Cryptocurrency, Financial and Investment Fraud, Misrepresentations, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

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