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The SEC has charged David M. Connolly with running a Ponzi-like scam<\/a> involving investment vehicles that bought and managed Pennsylvania and New Jersey apartment rental buildings. According to prosecutors in New Jersey, Connolly\u2019s alleged victims were defrauded of $9 million. He also faces criminal charges.<\/p>\n

None of Connolly\u2019s securities offerings were registered with the SEC. (Since 1996, he had raised more $50 million from over 200 clients who invested in over two dozen investment vehicles.)<\/p>\n

Per the Commission\u2019s complaint, in 2006 Connolly allegedly started misrepresenting to clients that their funds were to be solely used for the property linked to the vehicle they had in invested in when (unbeknownst to them) he actually was mixing monies in bank accounts and using their funds for other purposes. Although clients were promised monthly dividends from cash-flow profits that were to come from apartment rentals and their principal\u2019s growth from property appreciation, these projected funds did not materialize. Instead, Connolly allegedly ran a Ponzi-like scam that involved earlier investors getting their dividend payments from the money of newer investors.<\/p>\n

He also allegedly made materially false and misleading omissions and statements about: investors\u2019 money being placed in escrow until a purported real estate transaction closed, the financial independence and state of each property, the amount of equity victims had in properties, and the condition of each property. (Also containing allegedly false material misrepresentations and omissions was the \u201coffering prospectus,\u201d which provided information about how the investment vehicles would use the investor funds, the projected investment returns, prior vehicles performances, the mortgage financials for the real estate held in the investment vehicles, and the apartment buildings\u2019 vacancy rates.)<\/p>\n

Connolly is accused of improperly using proceeds from refinanced properties to keep his scheme running, and he even allegedly took $2 million of investors\u2019 funds for himself. After he stopped giving dividend payments to investors in April 2009 (when money from new investors stopped coming in and the investment vehicles\u2019 properties went into foreclosure), Connolly allegedly kept making sure he was getting dividends and a $250,000 income from the remaining client funds.<\/p>\n

Meantime, a federal grand jury has charged him with one count of securities fraud<\/a>, three counts of wire fraud, five counts of mail fraud, and seven counts of money laundering. A conviction for securities fraud comes with a 20-year maximum prison term and a $5 million fine. The other charges also come with hefty sentences and fines.<\/p>\n

Read the SEC Complaint<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n

Multimillion-Dollar Real Estate Ponzi Schemer Indicted For Fraud And Money Laundering<\/a>, Justice.gov, May 17, 2012<\/p>\n

More Blog Posts:<\/strong>
\nDallas Man Involved in $485M Ponzi Scams, Including the Fraud Involving Provident Royalties in Texas, Gets Twenty Year Prison Term<\/a>, Stockbroker Fraud Blog, May 8, 2012<\/p>\n

JPMorgan Chase $2B Trading Loss Leads to Probes by the SEC, Federal Reserve, and FBI<\/a>, Institutional Investor Securities Blog, May 15, 2012<\/p>\n

Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The SEC has charged David M. Connolly with running a Ponzi-like scam involving investment vehicles that bought and managed Pennsylvania and New Jersey apartment rental buildings. According to prosecutors in New Jersey, Connolly\u2019s alleged victims were defrauded of $9 million. He also faces criminal charges. None of Connolly\u2019s securities offerings were registered with the SEC. 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