The Securities and Exchange Commission has secured an emergency order to stop a hedge fund scam run by ex-marine Clayton A. Cohn and his Market Action Advisors, a hedge fund management firm that is registered in Illinois. The regulator contends that Cohn pretended to be a be a successful trader…
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AIG Sued by Nuveen Funds For Securities Fraud
25 Nuveen Investments Inc. funds have filed a securities fraud lawsuit against American International Group (AIG) accusing the company of federal securities laws and Illinois securities law violations, common law fraud, and unjust enrichment in the months before the 2008 US financial crisis. They want unspecified monetary damages. Also named…
Investors Claim They Lost $300M in Ohio Ponzi Fraud Lawsuit
In Ohio, investors are suing Glen Galemmo for allegedly running a Ponzi scam. The securities fraud lawsuit claims that approximately 100 to 200 investors lost more than $300 million. Galemmo is now named in two complaints related to these claims. His wife, Kristine Galemmo, is also being sued, as are…
US Will Likely Arrest Two Ex-JPMorgan Chase Employees Over Trading Losses Related to the London Whale Debacle
The United States Government is expected to announce criminal charges against two ex-JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) employees over allegations that they tried to cover up trading losses last year related to the London Whale fiasco. The ex-employees are Javier Martin-Artajo, the executive who was in charge of supervising the…
Judge Approves Creditor Vote on Jefferson County, Alabama’s Bankruptcy Plan
A US judge has paved the path for the creditors of Jefferson County, Alabama to vote on a plan to conclude what is being called the second biggest municipal bankruptcy in US history. Now, the county’s creditors—they are owed $4.2 billion—have until October 7 to vote. Most of them have…
SEC Adopts Rules to Protect Investors that Have Brokerage Firm-Held Assets
In a 3-2 vote, the SEC adopted rules to provide substantially more protections to investors who have assets held by registered broker-dealers. SEC Chairman Mary Jo White issued a statement saying she was confident the rules would give customers’ assets key “additional safeguards,” including the strengthening of audit requirements and…
Citigroup Must Pay $11M Claimant for Royal Bank of Scotland Investment Losses, Says FINRA Arbitration Panel
A FINRA arbitration panel has decided that Citigroup (C) and Edward J. Mulcahy, one of the firm’s ex-branch managers, has to pay $11 million to investor John Fiorilla. Fiorilla is a legal adviser to the Holy See who went to Citigroup because he wanted to de-risk a $16 million stock…
Texas Money Manager Sued by SEC and CFTC Over Alleged Forex Trading Scam
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have filed separate yet parallel securities fraud lawsuits against a Texas money manager accused of bilking investors in a foreign-exchange trading scheme. Kevin G. White allegedly took approximately $1.7 million of the $7 million of investor funds he raised…
Liquidators of Bear Stearns Hedge Funds Sue S & P, Moody’s and Fitch for $1.12B
Liquidators are suing Moody’s Investors Service (MCO), Standard & Poor’s, and Fitch Ratings over their issuing of allegedly fraudulent and inflated ratings for the securities belonging to two offshore Bear Stearns (BSC) hedge funds. The plaintiffs are seeking $1.12 billion. The credit raters are accused of misrepresenting their autonomy, the…
Oppenheimer & Co. to Pay $1.4M to FINRA For Allegedly Unregistered Penny Stock Sale & Anti-Money Laundering Violations
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority says that Oppenheimer & Co. (OPY) will pay a $1,425,000 fine for the purported sale of penny stock shares that were unregistered and for not having an anti-money laundering (AML) compliance program that was adequate enough to identify and report suspect transactions. The financial firm…