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August 10, 2022

Angel Oak Capital Advisors and its portfolio manager Ashish Neghandi will pay $1.75 million and $75,000 respectively to settle charges of misleading investors via their $90 million securitization of home renovation loans. When delinquency rates on their “fix-and-flip” loans increased unexpectedly, rather than accelerating return payments to certain investors, as contractually required, defendants artificially reduced delinquency rates by diverting borrowers’ funds to pay down outstanding loan balances. SEC

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

August 9, 2022

The SEC has awarded two whistleblowers more than $16 million for their assistance in a successful enforcement action.  The first whistleblower, who received about $13 million, submitted information that sparked the investigation and later provided key witnesses and other critical information that helped move the investigation forward.  The second whistleblower, who received more than $3 million, later submitted new information that also aided the investigation.  SEC

Tagged in: SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Securities Fraud, Whistleblower Rewards,

August 2, 2022

Crown Bridge Partners, Soheil Ahdoot, and Sepas Ahdoot, will pay more than $9 million for operating as unregistered securities dealers, and are required to surrender all conversion rights, unexercised warrants, and cancel any shares acquired by converting notes or exercising related warrants resulting from their fraud. Over a 5-year period, from 2016 to 2020, the defendants bought convertible notes, converted them into billions of newly issued shares of heavily-discounted stock, and sold the new shares at significant profit, all while not being registered as dealers with the SEC, skirting regulatory oversight. Defendants are subject to a 5-year penny stock bar in addition to the monetary penalties. SEC

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

July 29, 2022

Aegis Capital Corp., and two of its former representatives, Alan Z. Appelbaum and Paul F. Gallivan will pay around $2.5 million total for making materially false and misleading statements and making unsuitable investment recommendations, namely, variable interest rate structured products. Appelbaum, Gallivan, and 14 Aegis brokers recommended these highly complex and risky products to customers with “moderate” risk tolerance, despite having investment timelines inconsistent with the VRSP maturity dates. The targeted customers’ financial needs were disregarded, as were their risk tolerance, investment objectives, age, investment experience, and liquidity needs. SEC

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

July 28, 2022

Jaeson Birnbaum, disbarred attorney and owner of now-bankrupt litigation finance firm, Cash4Cases, will spend 3 years in prison for defrauding investors, in addition to paying over $2.6 million in restitution, and forfeiting another $2.6 million in fraud proceeds. Birnbaum offered sham “Investor Security Agreements,” allowing investors to share in recoveries from lawsuits supposedly purchased by Cash4Cases. Birnbaum netted over $3 million in investors’ funds through his fraud, misappropriated client funds for personal use, and directed his employee to falsify the company’s books and records to show already-paid-out funds as still available to be pledged as collateral to new investors. USAO SDNY

Tagged in: Accounting Fraud, Criminal Proceedings, Financial and Investment Fraud, Ponzi Schemes, Regulatory Violations, Securities Fraud,

July 15, 2022

An anonymous whistleblower was awarded $3 million based on SEC findings that the individual, who was solicited to invest in a product, expeditiously contacted the SEC to report misrepresentations regarding the product.  That report prompted the Commission to open an investigation, during which the individual provided additional assistance.  SEC

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud, SEC Whistleblower Reward Program, Securities Fraud,

July 11, 2022

Attorney Shimon Rosenfeld was ordered to pay over $7 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest and will spend 6 months in prison for defrauding real estate investors. For a period of nearly four years, from May 2014 to March 2018, Rosenfeld solicited investors for a pooled real estate investment fund whose profits would be split with the investors. Instead, Rosenfeld misappropriated the funds to trade securities in his personal brokerage account, resulting in a $6 million loss of investor funds. SEC

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

June 29, 2022

UBS Financial Services Inc. has agreed to pay $25 million in connection with a complex investment strategy that it ran from 2016 to 2017.  Though it marketed and sold YES, or Yield Enhancement Strategy, to some 600 investors, UBS did not adequately inform those investors about possible risks, nor provide its financial advisors with enough training and oversight to counteract those risks.  SEC

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

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