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Date: July 17, 2012
Commodity Pool Fraud These scams usual involve unregistered commodity pool operators that promise investors big profits with low risks. These fraudsters will usually capitalize on their personal relationships or reputations to get people to invest.
Date: July 13, 2012
The court turned down Goldman’s claim that the award should be vacated because it was issued in “manifest disregard of the law” and said that the clearing arm must pay this amount to the unsecured creditors of the now failed ...
Date: July 9, 2012
It was just this year that a court-appointed receiver in Minnesota sued Peregrine over allegedly disregarding warning signs that the futures brokerage’s client Trevor Cook was running a Ponzi scam.
Date: July 9, 2012
Allen Stanford’s $7 billion Ponzi scam. Federal Judge Robert Wilkins said that under the definition of the Securities Investor Protection Act, the SEC did not meet its burden in proving that more than 7,000 Stanford investors were “victims” and, as ...
Date: July 3, 2012
In Dallas County Court, 11 investors are suing Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and its financial adviser Delsa Thomas for bilking them in an alleged Texas Ponzi scam . They say that Thomas “took advantage of their trust in her when ...
Date: June 30, 2012
The SEC alleges that while running a Ponzi scam involving transactions influenced by his astrological beliefs, Persaud lost $400,000 of investor money in trades while diverting at least $415,000 to cover his personal spending.
Date: June 28, 2012
In connection with this alleged scam, the SEC separately filed and settled cease-and-desist and administrative proceedings against Harbinger.
Date: June 26, 2012
Wayne Klein, the receiver of a Ponzi scam involving Winsome Investment Trust and US Ventures can go ahead with his claims to get back money from an investor who received more than she had invested. Judge Dale A.
Date: June 22, 2012
District for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit that investors in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scam had filed against the government. The reason for the dismissal was lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
Date: June 11, 2012
Picard has been working to recover the money of the victims of the Madoff’s Ponzi scam who were collectively bilked of billions of dollars. Among the defendants are Swiss private banks Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie and EFG Bank ...
