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Misrepresentations

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September 14, 2015

The SEC charged three men with attempting a pump-and-dump scheme that was thwarted by the SEC’s preemptive action to suspend trading in the company’s securities before secretly-controlled shares could be dumped on unsuspecting investors.  The SEC’s complaint alleges that the three men schemed to conceal their control over 40 million shares of Endeavor Power Corp. and artificially inflate Endeavor’s share price through manipulative trading and a campaign of misinformation.  The scheme was thwarted when the SEC suspended trading in Endeavor’s securities on March 8, 2013.  SEC

Tagged in: Market Manipulation and Trading Violations, Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

September 8, 2015

The SEC charged former CEO and CFO of now-bankrupt video management company KIT Digital with falsifying financial statements to make the company appear more profitable than it was.  The defendants’ variety of schemes, as alleged by the SEC, included an off-the-books slush fund used to generate payments back to KIT to create the false appearance that the company was being paid for its products.  The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York brought parallel criminal charges against both men.  SEC

Tagged in: Accounting Fraud, Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

August 17, 2015

Citigroup affiliates, Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (CGMI) and Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC (CAI), will pay $180 million to settle charges that they defrauded investors in two hedge funds by claiming that the funds were safe, low-risk, and suitable for traditional bond investors.  An SEC investigation found that even as the funds began to collapse, CGMI and CAI failed to disclose the dire condition of the funds.  Many of the misleading representations were at odds with disclosures in written materials provided to investors.  The funds raised nearly $3 billion from approximately 4,000 investors before collapsing.  CGMI and CAI will bear all costs of distributing the $180 million in settlement funds to harmed investors.  SEC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

August 3, 2015

Houston businessman, Frederick Alan Voight, settled charges by the SEC that he operated a $114 million Ponzi scheme.  The SEC’s case charged Voight with defrauding more than 300 investors in multiple offerings of promissory notes issued by two partnerships he owns.  Voight has agreed to an asset freeze and to pay civil penalties and return allegedly ill-gotten gains in an amount to be set later by the court.  SEC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations, Ponzi Schemes, Securities Fraud,

July 31, 2015

The SEC charged Canadian citizen, Phillip Thomas Kueber, with conducting a scheme to conceal his control and ownership of microcap company, Cynk Technology Corp., to make it appear that the company had publicly-held shares.  According to the SEC’s complaint, the SEC suspended trading in the stock before Kueber could profit on the stock’s rise from 10 cents per share to over $21 per share. SEC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

July 30, 2015

The SEC charged two men and eight companies with defrauding investors who purchased the companies’ securities and so-called “charitable gift annuities.”  According to the SEC’s complaint, the two men, the CEO and CFO of Defendant 54Freedom, Inc., repeatedly misled investors regarding company prospects.   The alleged scheme raised at least $8 million from 125 or more investors over seven years.  In a parallel criminal action, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of New York announced on July 24th that it arrested one of the men on charges of fraud and money laundering related to the “charitable gift annuities.”  SEC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

July 21, 2015

The SEC charged three men, currently living in Israel, with defrauding investors by disseminating promotional e-mails exhorting readers to immediately buy purportedly hot stocks so they could secretly sell their own holdings at a substantial profit, a classic “pump and dump” scheme.  According to the allegations in the complaint, the men pumped the price of penny stocks by as much as 1,800 percent, permitting them to take over $2.8 million in trading profits.  In a parallel action, the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s office has brought criminal charges against the three men.  SEC

Tagged in: Market Manipulation and Trading Violations, Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

July 14, 2015

The SEC charged 15 individuals and 19 entities for their roles in alleged schemes to manipulate the trading of microcap stocks.  The defendants include two microcap issuers (Warrier Girl Corp. and Nature’s Peak, formerly Everock, Inc.), six firms alleged to have acted as unregistered broker-dealers for customers wishing to conceal their stock ownership and manipulate the microcap market, owners and employees at these six firms, customers, and stock promoters.  Defendant Moneyline Brokers is alleged to have unlawfully operated as a broker-dealer for U.S.-based customers who engaged in “pump and dump” schemes.  SEC

Tagged in: Market Manipulation and Trading Violations, Misrepresentations, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

July 14, 2015

OZ Management LP admitted wrongdoing and agreed to pay a $4.25 million penalty to settle charges that it provided inaccurate trade data to four prime brokers, causing inaccuracies in the brokers’ books and records and in data provided to the SEC in investigations.  SEC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations, Securities Fraud,

June 23, 2015

The SEC charged Gregg R. Mulholland, a microcap promoter, with illegally selling more than 83 million penny stock shares that he secretly obtained through at least 10 different offshore front companies.  Mulholland was previously charged by the SEC in 2011 for the fraudulent pump-and-dump manipulation of a sports drink company founded by Daniel “Rudy” Ruettiger, known for having inspired the motion picture “Rudy.”  In 2013, the SEC obtained a monetary judgment against Mulholland for more than $5.3 million. SEC

Tagged in: Misrepresentations, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

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