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\t\t\t\tUnited Development Funding IV Shares Fall After Allegations of Texas Ponzi Scheme<\/strong>
\nUnited Development Funding IV (“UDF IV”), a Texas-based real estate investment trust <\/a>(“REIT”), saw its share price drop after Harvest Exchange published a post that said the REIT had been run like a Ponzi scheme for years. United Development was a nontraded REIT that became traded when it listed on Nasdaq last year under the symbol “UDF”. <\/p>\n

In the report on the Harvest site, the anonymous author said that the UDF umbrella had traits indicative of a Ponzi scam, such as, it uses new capital to pay distributions to current investors and UDF companies and gives substantial liquidity to earlier UDF companies to pay earlier investors. The article said that once the funding of retail capital to the most current UDF stops, the earlier UDF companies do not seem able to stand on their own. This purportedly indicates that the structure will likely fail and investors will be the ones sustaining losses.<\/p>\n

After the report by the online professional network of investors, UDF IV saw its share price plunge from $17.53 to $10.10. It later dropped further to $8.55\/share.<\/p>\n

Over $1M Awarded in Senior Financial Fraud Case Against Morgan Stanley and a Former Financial Adviser <\/strong>
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