State Securities Regulators Reach Settlement with Vanguard
State Securities Regulators Reach Settlement with Vanguard **TRENTON, NJ** – The Office of the Attorney General, Division of Consumer Affairs, and Bureau of Securities have announced that New Jersey is part of…
Former Analyst Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud For Committing Insider Trading By Front-Running Employer’s Pending Trades
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SERGEI POLEVIKOV, a former analyst employed by an asset management firm, pled guilty to one count…
Former South Bay Executive Sentenced to Nearly Three Years in Federal Prison for Insider Trading and Securities Fraud
LOS ANGELES – A former executive at a Hawthorne-based company was sentenced today to 35 months in federal prison for trading in options contracts using inside company information and illegally purchasing…
Israeli Securities Trader Sentenced To 30 Months In Prison For Role In International Insider Trading Scheme
Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DOV MALNIK, an Israeli securities trader and finance professional, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his…
Manhattan Real Estate Fund Manager Charged With Securities Fraud Offenses
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS”), announced…
Hudson Valley Tequila Producer Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud Scheme
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH CIMINO, the founder of a tequila brand based in the Hudson Valley, pled guilty today to…
Ohio AG Sues Facebook For Securities Fraud, Alleges It Hid Harms To Children
Republican Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a complaint against Facebook on Monday, alleging the company misled its investors. The complaint alleges that Facebook executives violated federal securities laws by making false statements…
Chandler Man Sentenced to 30 Months for Securities Fraud and Embezzlement
PHOENIX, Ariz. – On Wednesday, Vu Anh Nguyen, 26, of Chandler, Arizona was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more…
Ottawa County Man Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud
GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN — U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Joshua Louis Rupp, 37, previously of West Olive, Michigan, pled guilty to a felony information alleging…
Queens Man Convicted of Securities and Wire Fraud Conspiracies Relating to the Foreign Exchange Market
John Won was convicted by a federal jury in Brooklyn yesterday of all five counts of an indictment charging him with securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies, as well as…
Florida Attorney Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud In Connection With Fraudulent Opinion Letter Scheme
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that THOMAS CRAFT, a licensed attorney, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to securities fraud. CRAFT’s guilty…
Two New Jersey, One New York Securities Claims Aggregators Arrested and Charged with $40M Fraud
PHILADELPHIA – Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Joseph Cammarata, 47, of Monmouth Beach, NJ; Erik Cohen, 40, of Manalapan, NJ; and David Punturieri, 41, of Staten Island, NY;…
New York Man Admits Defrauding Investors of More Than $3.5 Million through Securities Offering Scheme
TRENTON, N.J. – A New York man today admitted perpetrating a scheme to defraud more than 70 investors through a long-running securities offering fraud that raised more than $4 million and caused investor…
Stock Trader Arrested And Charged With Securities Fraud For Using His Twitter Account To Operate A Pump-And-Dump Scheme
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Ricky J. Patel, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI”), announced…
CEO Of East Bay-Based Internet Companies Marketing Child-Friendly Services Indicted On Wire Fraud And Securities Fraud Charges
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal grand jury has indicted Alan Anderson, charging him with wire fraud and securities fraud charges related to a scheme to use materially false and fraudulent pretenses to…
Stock Promoters Plead Guilty to “Pump and Dump” Securities Fraud Scheme
MINNEAPOLIS – Two men have entered guilty pleas to securities fraud charges in connection to their illegal pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney W. Anders Folk. According to their…
Senior Executive of Oil-Services Company Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud Scheme that Caused Over $886 Million in Shareholder Losses
WASHINGTON: A North Dakota man, formerly the executive vice president of U.S. operations at a publicly traded Canadian oil-services company, pleaded guilty today to perpetrating a scheme to fraudulently inflate the…
Former CEO of Braskem Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Foreign Bribery and Securities Law Violations
BROOKLYN, NY – Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Jose Carlos Grubisich, a Brazilian national and the former Chief Executive Officer of Braskem S.A. (Braskem), a publicly traded Brazilian petrochemical company,…
Two New Jersey Men Arrested And Charged With Securities Fraud For Scheme To Defraud Investors In Hemp Company
Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”),…
Beverlywood Man Pleads Guilty to Securities Fraud, Admitting Massive Ponzi that Falsely Claimed to License Foreign Film Rights
LOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty this afternoon to a federal securities fraud charge and admitted operating a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $650 million with bogus…
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