{"id":19565,"date":"2021-02-12T12:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T18:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=19565"},"modified":"2022-04-19T12:57:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T17:57:10","slug":"sec-seeks-monitor-against-gpb-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/sec-seeks-monitor-against-gpb-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Seeks Court-Appointed Monitor To Protect Investors Victimized In Mass GPB Capital Ponzi Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regulator Wants to Prevent Alternative Asset Firm From Causing Investors More Financial Harm<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/sec-seeks-outside-monitor-to-protect-gpb-capital-investors-11612905700\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">submitted a court filing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asking that a monitor be appointed to prevent GPB Capital Holdings, LLC from committing more alleged misconduct and disposing of any assets that could be used to recover investors\u2019 money. The regulator is suing the alternative asset firm for allegedly defrauding more than 17,000 investors in an over $1.7B Ponzi scam.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The SEC contends that having a monitor is warranted and needed. The Commission wants to give this person broad powers over &#8220;non-privileged books, records, and account statements for the entities and assets\u201d related to GPB Capital Holdings\u2019 portfolio companies and funds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/sec-seeks-monitor-against-gpb-capital\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading SEC Seeks Court-Appointed Monitor To Protect Investors Victimized In Mass GPB Capital Ponzi Scam\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulator Wants to Prevent Alternative Asset Firm From Causing Investors More Financial Harm In U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has submitted a court filing asking that a monitor be appointed to prevent GPB Capital Holdings, LLC from committing more alleged misconduct and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3762,4102],"tags":[3188,4519],"class_list":["post-19565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-investigations","category-gpb-capital","tag-gpb-capital-holdings","tag-gpb-ponzi-scam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SEC Seeks Monitor to Protect GPB Capital Investors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The SEC is seeking a court-appointed monitor against GPB Capital Holdings to protect investors from further losses in a mass ponzi scam.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/sec-seeks-monitor-against-gpb-capital\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"SEC Seeks Monitor to Protect GPB Capital Investors\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The SEC is seeking a court-appointed monitor against GPB Capital Holdings to protect investors from further losses in a mass ponzi scam.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/pexels-sora-shimazaki-5673498-1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; 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