Robert Lunn, the financial adviser who bilked former NBA star Scottie Pippen, has been sentenced to three years behind bars. Lunn was convicted in 2014 of multiple counts of bank fraud. According to prosecutors, he obtained $3M in loans from Leaders Bank, $1.4M of which he claimed was for Pippen…
Guy Gentile, who owns a New York-based brokerage firm, is charged with fraudulently inflating two micro-cap stocks’ prices before selling them to investors. His alleged actions purportedly allowed him to make $17.2M in gross trading proceeds. Gentile was indicted in federal court. He and co-conspirators Itamar Cohen and Michael Taxon,…
The Charter Township of Clinton Police and Fire Retirement System is suing LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (LPLA) for $115M. In the class action securities case, the plaintiff contends that a stock buyback program cost the firm and its shareholders that amount. Company shares closed trading at $42.91 on October 29…
FINRA Panel Awards Estate Over $34M from Morgan Stanley in the Wake of Churning Allegations A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel awarded the estate of Home Shopping Network Roy M. Speer over $34M in its case against Morgan Stanley (MS). The panel ruled that the firm, branch manager Terry…
Fort Worth-based investment adviser James Poe has been barred by the Texas State Securities Board from serving as a financial representative or broker in the state. According to the Board, Poe engaged in fraudulent sales practices involving life settlements.This is Texas securities fraud. The Texas adviser, who is the president…
BNY Mellon to Pay Massachusetts $3M Over Computer Problem That Impacted Mutual Funds Bank of New York Mellon (BK) will pay $3 million to the state of Massachusetts to resolve a probe that found that a computer glitch did not calculate net asset values for over 1,000 mutual funds. Although…
According to Fortune and Bloomberg, victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi Scam were able to recover 57 cents for every dollar they invested in his fake funds because there were investors who never filed claims for $2.5B of the $20B lost in the fraud. Seeing as the deadline to file claims…
Municipal Advisor Accused of Not Telling Client About Conflict In the first case enforcing municipal advisor’s fiduciary duty under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, the SEC is filing charges against Central States Capital Markets, its CEO John Stepp, and two employees. The regulator claims that in 2011, David Malone and Mark…
Daniel Thibeault, the ex-CEO of GL Capital Partners, has entered a guilty plea to criminal charges accusing him of bilking fund investors of $15M. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Thiebeault used funds that were in the GL Beyond Income Fund to make fake consumer loans. Meanwhile, investors were…
A U.S. district court judge has sentenced two former Rabobank bankers to time in prison for their involvement in rigging the London interbank offered rate. Anthony Allen received a two-year prison term and Anthony Conti was sentenced to a year and a day. Conti and Allen were convicted by a…