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WOODBRIDGE GROUP EXECUTIVES ARRESTED OVER $1.3 BILLION PONZI SCHEME

By |April 23rd, 2019|Legal Matters|

Three executives for the Woodbridge Group of Companies, Robert H. Shapiro, Dayne Roseman, and Ivan Acevedo, have been arrested and charged with conspiring to commit wire and mail fraud as well as money laundering in connection with their roles in the Woodbridge Group’s $1.3 billion Ponzi scheme which primarily targeted elderly investors. The Woodbridge Group of [...]

WOODBRIDGE CEO ROBERT SHAPIRO TO PAY SEC FINE OF $120 MILLION IN PONZI SCHEME

By |November 2nd, 2018|Legal Matters|

According to court documents, Robert Shapiro, the former CEO of Woodbridge Group of Companies, has agreed to pay $120 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle allegations that he defrauded investors in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. According to the allegations, Woodbridge and Shapiro defrauded more than 8,400 investors in unregistered Woodbridge funds, [...]

CONTACT THE FRANKOWSKI FIRM REGARDING YOUR ARTHUR LAMAR ADAMS, MADISON TIMBER PROPERTIES PONZI SCHEME LOSS

By |June 28th, 2018|Legal Matters|

Madison, Mississippi resident Arthur Lamar Adams was charged last month with orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme exceeding $100 million stolen from more than 250 investors in at least 14 states. Authorities describe the scheme as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the state’s history.  The Securities and Exchange Commission likewise filed a civil complaint [...]

SEC CHARGES EIGHT DEFENDANTS IN SHOCKING CASE OF FRAUD AND ELDER ABUSE IN $102 MILLION PONZI SCHEME

By |June 19th, 2018|Legal Matters|

SEC charges eight in $102 million Ponzi scheme The Securities Exchange Commission filed a civil complaint today against five individuals and three entities in a massive Ponzi scheme involving $102 million stolen from at least 637 investors and including allegations of shocking greed and elder abuse. According to the allegations, Defendants Perry Santillo [...]

SEC WARNS INVESTORS OF PONZI SCHEME “RED FLAGS”

By |June 8th, 2018|Legal Matters|

A Ponzi scheme is a form of investment fraud in which the scheme’s operator pays returns on purported investments to the current “investors” using money collected from new “investors.” Because such a scheme requires a steady and near constant flow of new incoming money to survive, Ponzi schemes are doomed to eventual failure, or immediate [...]

CONTACT THE FRANKOWSKI FIRM REGARDING YOUR JEFFREY LYNN GENTRY PONZI SCHEME LOSS

By |May 18th, 2018|Legal Matters|

Residents in White County, Tennessee have been shocked by revelations that a trusted local businessman spent the past four years duping investors in a massive $43 million Ponzi scheme. Yesterday, 40-year-old Jeffrey Allen Gentry pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with the Ponzi scheme, with victims including his own family [...]

SEC CHARGES WOODBRIDGE GROUP AND FOUNDER ROBERT SHAPIRO WITH RUNNING $1.2 BILLION PONZI SCHEME

By |December 23rd, 2017|Uncategorized|

Did you lose money investing with the Woodbridge Group? The Frankowski Firm can help The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced yesterday that it was bringing charges and freezing the assets of a group of unregistered funds and their owner based on allegations that the Woodbridge Group and its founder, Robert Shapiro, bilked investors (many [...]