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SEC Obtains Final Judgement Against Former LPL Advisor Who Defrauded Clients...

The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered a final judgment against Massachusetts-based investment adviser James K. Couture in connection with the...

SEC Charges Financial Advisor for Defrauding NBA Players

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Darryl Matthew Cohen, a former investment adviser at Morgan Stanley, with misappropriating more than $1 million from three...

Opinion: A Fundamental Right Denied

As US citizens today, we sometimes may be guilty of taking our rights for granted, assuming that many of these rights are fundamental by...

SEC Charges Darius Karpavicius with $4 Million Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Darius Karpavicius, of Lithuania, with orchestrating an offering fraud that raised more than $4 million from approximately 64...

SEC Charges Self-Proclaimed California Entrepreneur with Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged John David Gessin and two of his businesses, Equifunds Inc. and Ice Fleet LLC, with defrauding investors and...

SEC Obtains Judgement Against Perpetrator of Multi-Million Dollar Securities Fraud

The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered a final judgment against Joshua Dax Cabrera ordering him to pay approximately $1.1...

SEC Petitions Supreme Court to Decide Authority of Administrative Law Courts

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a petition late last week requesting that the Supreme Court review a decision by the Fifth Circuit that...

SEC Charges Former Girardi Adviser with Running Ponzi Scheme

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Stephen Keith Woodard Sr. with running a Ponzi scheme in which he offered and sold securities to more...

Former Merrill Lynch Advisors Charged with Defrauding Investors of $5 Million

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New York-area twin brothers, Adam Kaplan and Daniel Kaplan, for engaging in several different fraudulent activities to...

SEC Charges Advisor for Defrauding Nearly a Dozen Clients

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged an investment adviser with defrauding investors and other advisory clients out of nearly half a million dollars. The...

Stockbroker Uses Invesco as Cover for Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced the filing of a civil injunctive action against Bradley Morgan Holts of Beaumont, Texas, for the misappropriation...

Regulatory Perspective: The Path Ahead for Alts in 2023

Following downturns in the stock and bond markets, financial professionals and Main Street investors are turning to alternative investments to further diversify in a...

Ozy Media and CEO Charged with Securities Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged media and entertainment company Ozy Media Inc., its chief executive officer Carlos R. Watson Jr., its former chief...

Mormon Church Settles SEC Charges for $5 Million

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and its investment manager, Ensign Peak Advisors Inc., has agreed to pay a $5 million fine...

NBA Hall of Famer Fined by the SEC for Misleading Crypto...

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against National Basketball Association Hall of Famer Paul Pierce for endorsing EMAX tokens, crypto asset securities offered...

KBS Growth & Income REIT Defaults on Commonwealth Building Loan

As the company encourages stockholders to liquidate, KBS Growth & Income REIT Inc., a publicly registered non-traded real estate investment trust, revealed in a...

SEC Proposes Significant Change to Adviser Custody Rule

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 4-1 yesterday to  propose rule changes that it says would enhance protections of customer assets managed by registered...

House Hearing Debates Changes to the SEC’s Definition of Accredited Investor

A U.S. House of Representatives hearing last week highlighted current policy on whether the definition of “accredited investor” should be amended further, focusing on...

SEC Charges Former Investment Advisor with $200 Million Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Joshua W. Coleman, a resident of North Wales, Pennsylvania and former investment adviser, with perpetrating a fraudulent scheme...

Convicted Ponzi Architect to Pay $24 Million to Settle SEC Charges

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced the resolution of its fraud action against Eric J. Dalius and the business he owned, Saivian LLC. Dalius and...