Alabama Man Indicted On Securities Fraud Charges
Last month, Jesse Morgan Hinson of Troy, Alabama was arrested for alleged violations of the Alabama Securities Act. Hinson turned himself in to Houston County law enforcement officials based on an arrest warrant issued after an October 2015 Houston County Grand Jury returned a four-count indictment. Hinson was released on $75,000 bond pending trial. The […]
California Man Indicted For Defrauding Alabama Investor
Daniel Scott Register of Valencia, California was indicted in Calhoun County, Alabama on charges of defrauding an Alabama investor. Register was arrested on October 6 by the Orange County, California Sheriff’s Department. He was then transferred on October 9 to a correctional facility in Los Angeles, and a hold was placed on him for pending […]
Texas Man Sentenced For Selling Unregistered Securities To Alabama Investor
Richard Waskom of McKinney, Texas pleaded guilty to one count of Sale of Unregistered Securities before Jefferson County, Alabama Circuit Court Judge Tommy Nail and was given probation for selling unregistered securities pertaining to a project to re-enter previously drilled oil wells. Waskom was sentenced, under a plea deal with prosecutors, to five years imprisonment. […]
Mobile, Alabama Man Arrested For Alleged Securities Violations
Richard James Tucker of Mobile, Alabama was arrested last week by Baldwin County, Alabama Sheriff’s Department deputies for alleged violations of the Alabama Securities Act. The arrest was subsequent to a June 2015 Baldwin County Grand Jury Indictment charging Tucker with three counts of Fraud in Connection with the Sale of Securities, including one count […]
Two Charged In Alabama Securities Fraud Case
Bruce Alexander Gwyn of Metairie, Lousiana and James Anthony Ghio of Fairhope, Alabama were arrested on charges of fraud and illegal sales, the Alabama Securities Commission announced. The indictment alleges that they offered or sold securities described as limited partnership interests in Level III Trading Partners LP to an Alabama resident. The indictment further accuses […]
Alabama Man Sentenced In Securities Fraud Case
Kevin Jerome Brown of Hoover, Alabama is looking at a long probation sentence after pleading guilty to securities fraud, according to authorities. Brown pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud by employing a device, scheme, or artifice to defraud and one count of acting as an unregistered securities agent in Shelby County Circuit Court […]
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 […]
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. […]
Canadian Trader Charged for Short Selling U.S. Stocks
The SEC filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court in San Francisco alleging that Andrew Evans, a Canadian trader at his firm, Maritime Asset Management, illegally shorted U.S. stocks from December 2010 until May 2012. Evans will pay more than $1 million in settlement charges. Evans allegedly sold a U.S. company’s stocks at a […]
Alabama Securities Fraudster’s Assets Intercepted
The Alabama Securities Commission intercepted $16,000 worth of redeemed stock owned by Harry H. “Woody” Duncan from Huntsville, Alabama and successfully rerouted the cash to assist in the payment of restitution to victims of an illegal securities scheme operated by Duncan in 2011. In August 2012, Madison County, Alabama Circuit Court Judge James P. Smith […]