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Madoff Victims Receive Biggest Payout In Years With Checks For $1.1M

Bernard Madoff's victims are getting big checks as the trustee unwinding his fraud sends out $1.2 billion in recovered funds, with checks averaging $1.1 million. This payout is the biggest in over three years and comes a week before the anniversary of Madoff's December 11, 2008 arrest, when thousands of retirees, charities, investment funds, and other clients realized they had lost $17.5 billion in principal in the decades-old Ponzi scheme. The distribution beginning today raises the victims' recoveries to $9.16 billion, about 57% of their lost funds, according to trustee Irving Picard. Picard said that checks will range from $1,298 to $202 million and when this payout, which is the sixth distribution of funds, is complete nearly 1,300 victims will have been made whole. Picard stated that his recoveries "exceed similar efforts related to prior Ponzi scheme recoveries, in terms of dollar value and percentage of stolen funds recovered." He will send another $320 million after pending litigation is resolved. The [...]

By |December 4th, 2015|Fraud, Press Releases & News|
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Pennsylvania Man Charged With Defrauding Investors Out Of $1.2M

Bernard M. Parker of Indiana, Pennsylvania is charged with defrauding twenty-two investors out of $1.2 million and using the cash to pay his mortgage, debit card purchases, and other personal expenses. Parker, who operated Parker Financial Services from his home, was indicted under seal on counts of securities and mail fraud. The case was then unsealed, and the SEC filed a related suit against Parker. FINRA records show that Parker is a former Edward Jones employee. Agents with the FBI, IRS and U.S. Postal Inspection Service said that from 2008 through 2014, Mr. Parker enticed customers to enter into “Investor Contracts” involving the purchase of tax lien certificates for properties in Florida, Colorado and Arizona that would earn returns of 6% to 9% annually, as well as other investments that were not registered by the state or the SEC. Parker told investors that their money invested in his contracts would be used for legitimate investments but then diverted hundreds of [...]

By |December 4th, 2015|FINRA, Fraud, Press Releases & News, SEC|
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RCAP Shutting Down Wholesaling REIT Division After Fraud Charges, Drop In Sales

RCS Capital Corp. ("RCAP") announced this week that it is closing its wholesaling brokerage division following a decline in sales of nontraded real estate investment trusts and allegations of fraud. The shutdown will result in the layoff of roughly 150 employees. Another 50, elsewhere in the company, will also lose their jobs. The company was founded by former real estate mogul Nicholas Schorsch, who remains a principal shareholder. The wholesaling brokerage division, Realty Capital Securities ("RCS"), was the centerpiece of his nontraded REIT empire, which at its peak raised hundreds of millions of dollars a month in equity from mom-and-pop investors who bought Schorsch's REITs. RCS will close in March. In addition to that announcement, RCAP stated that the division had come to a $3 million settlement with the Massachusetts security division, which had charged RCS with fraudulently gathering proxy votes to support real estate deals sponsored by Schorsch's AR Capital, which managed Schorsch's REITs. “RCS is pleased to confirm it [...]

By |December 3rd, 2015|Fraud, Press Releases & News|
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Vermont Man Charged By SEC For Operating Ponzi Scheme

Homero Joshua Garza of Brattleboro, Vermont faces federal charges alleging that he operated a Ponzi scheme that bilked thousands of investors. The SEC charged Garza and his two Bitcoin-mining companies, GAW Miners LLC and ZenMiner LLC, with running the scheme. The companies sold $20 million worth of what appeared to be shares in Hashlets, digital mining contracts, from August to December 2014. The Hashlets were advertised as "always profitable and never obsolete" and were sold to over 10,000 investors. The SEC filed its complaint in U.S. District Court in Connecticut. In the complaint, the SEC defines mining for Bitcoin or other virtual currencies as "applying computer power to try to solve complex equations that verify a group of transactions in that virtual currency. The first computer (or collection of computers) to solve such an equation is awarded new units of that virtual currency." The SEC says that the companies oversold the Hashlets, which were created so that investors could have a [...]

By |December 2nd, 2015|Fraud, Press Releases & News, SEC|
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