{"id":30794,"date":"2025-04-02T22:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=30794"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:02:04","slug":"ponzi-scam-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ponzi-scam-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponzi Scam Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Did You Suffer Investor Losses While Working With Barred Osaic Wealth Broker\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Marat Likhtenstein<\/strong><strong>?\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Our Ponzi Scam Attorneys Are Looking Into Allegations of a $1.24M Fraud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Ponzi Scam Attorneys (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/\">investorlawyers.com<\/a>) are looking into allegations that ex-Osaic Wealth financial advisor <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/2470480\">Marat Likhtenstein<\/a>\u00a0stole $1.24M from clients in an alleged\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/what-is-a-ponzi-scam.html\">Ponzi scam<\/a>. We are offering a free, no-obligation case assessment to former customers of this now-barred New York broker who suffered serious losses.<\/p>\n<p>Likhtenstein, who worked in the industry for 30 years, was an Osaic Wealth registered representative from 2018 to 2024 when the firm fired him after he allegedly did not disclose personal loan transactions with a client. He was permanently barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.finra.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FINRA<\/a>) that same year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ponzi-scam-attorneys\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Ponzi Scam Attorneys\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did You Suffer Investor Losses While Working With Barred Osaic Wealth Broker\u00a0Marat Likhtenstein?\u00a0\u00a0Our Ponzi Scam Attorneys Are Looking Into Allegations of a $1.24M Fraud Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Ponzi Scam Attorneys (investorlawyers.com) are looking into allegations that ex-Osaic Wealth financial advisor Marat Likhtenstein\u00a0stole $1.24M from clients in an alleged\u00a0Ponzi scam. 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