Delaware Court Awards $148M In Damages, Finds Dole Food Company Directors Liable
The Delaware Court of Chancery found David Murdock and C. Michael Carter liable under the entire fairness standard. Murdock is Dole Food Company Inc.’s Chairman and CEO, and Carter is a director of the company and its President, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel. The two were found to have driven down Dole’s stock price […]
Texas Attorney General Pleads Not Guilty In Securities Fraud Case; His Attorney Withdraws
Ken Paxton, Texas’ attorney general, pleaded not guilty to securities fraud charges yesterday. During the hearing, he also asked the judge to bar cameras from ensuing hearings, and his attorney withdrew from the case. Opinions on Texas’ top law enforcement officer, who will not step down from office, are split. Tea party activists who back […]
Former Tibetan Monk Accused Of Fraud
The SEC accused Lobsang Dargey, a former Tibetan monk and now real estate developer, of siphoning almost $18 million from Chinese investors who sent him $125 million, seeking residency under a visa program. The SEC has since frozen Dargey’s assets and the assets of his “Path America” companies. The SEC’s civil complaint states that Dargey […]
Ex-Cypress Creek CEO Pleads Guilty To Securities Fraud
James Albert Lawhorne, Jr., former CEO of Cypress Creek Organic Farms, Inc., pleaded guilty in Huntsville before Madison County Circuit Judge James P. Smith to two counts of Securities Fraud relating to an investment scheme involving the company. In accordance with his plea agreement, Lawhorne admitted to each fraud count, Class B Felonies with a […]
RIA Fined $2.8M And Owner Barred From Securities Industry
The SEC has fined a former registered investment adviser $2.8 million and barred its owner, Jacob Cooper, from the securities industry. Cooper, who is known as a “Main Street Madoff” by his ex-clients, is alleged to have defrauded investors by using a kickback scheme that caused about $44 million in losses. The owner of San Diego’s […]
FSC Securities To Pay $1.28M In Ponzi Case
FSC Securities will pay a $1.28 million arbitration award to investors who were defrauded by Aubrey Lee Price, who had feigned his death in 2012 to avoid being investigated for his $40 million Ponzi scheme. FSC, a broker-dealer in the AIG Advisor Group, was alleged by 8 investors to have failed to supervise a number […]
Alabama Man Sentenced For Ponzi Scheme
Bryan Anderson, a former broker from Hoover, Alabama, was sentenced yesterday to seven years and three months in federal prison after pleading guilty to operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of over $3 million. U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Hopkins also ordered Anderson to pay restitution of $3,068,614 plus interest to his victims. […]
Whole Foods Alleged To Have Committed Securities Fraud
A lawsuit brought by a shareholder alleges that Whole Foods committed securities fraud by hiding the fact that it overcharged its New York customers, which resulted in negative publicity that hurt sales and drove its price share down. Plaintiff Yochanan Markman filed a complaint last week in federal court in Austin, Texas claiming that Whole […]
Nine Charged In $30M Computer Hacking, Securities Fraud
Nine alleged computer hackers were charged today for their roles in a securities fraud scheme that earned $30 million in illicit gains by stealing and trading on corporate earnings data procured from newswire services before they were published. The charges, which were brought by U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the District of New Jersey and the […]
SEC Slams Door On $114M Ponzi Scheme
Frederick Alan Voight of Richmond, Texas, a Houston-area businessman promising to prevent car wrecks caused by drowsy drivers, has been charged by the SEC with operating a $114 million Ponzi scheme. Voight has been accused of defrauding over three hundred investors. He most recently raised $13.8 million on claims that the money would be used […]