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Alabama Man Sentenced For Securities Fraud

Keith Michael Rogers of Huntsville, Alabama was sentenced by Madison County Circuit Court Judge Alison Austin to three years in prison for securities fraud. He received a ten year split sentence and will serve three years and has seven suspended. Judge Austin also ordered Rogers to pay $1.7 million in restitution. The sentencing follows Rogers' guilty plea in March in which he admitted to using his clients' investment money in a Ponzi scheme. The plea included one count of securities fraud. According to authorities, Rogers took more than $2.5 million from his investors and was using the money for his personal expenses and using funds from new clients to pay back earlier clients in classic Ponzi fashion. According to Madison County Assistant District Attorney Jay Town, Rogers' clients included former University of Alabama running back Kenneth Darby. According to FINRA's BrokerCheck, Rogers has been permanently barred from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities to [...]

By |May 27th, 2016|Broker Check, FINRA, Fraud, Press Releases & News|
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Financial Advisor For Ex-Alabama Football Player Pleads Guilty To Fraud

Keith Michael Rogers, a financial advisor from Huntsville, Alabama, pleaded guilty to one count of fraud in connection with the sale of securities, according to the Alabama Securities Commission. Specifically, Rogers' plea was attributed to his engaging in an act, practice or course of business which operated as a fraud or deceit upon his victims. Rogers has also been sued by former University of Alabama football star Kenneth Darby. Rogers' guilty plea was entered before Madison County Circuit Judge Allison Austin. In 2014, the financial advisor was sued by several investors, including Darby, for $2.4 million. In the suit, Darby asserted that he lost his life savings of over $250,000 because of Rogers. Rogers was arrested in 2015 based on an arrest warrant and indictment returned by the July 2015 Madison County Grand Jury. He will be sentenced on April 18. The prosecution will ask for a ten-year prison sentence for Rogers, according to the statement made by the Alabama [...]

By |March 9th, 2016|Fraud, Press Releases & News|
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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 maximum sentence of twenty years in prison and a fine up to $30,000. In return for his guilty plea, the State asked the Court to impose a fifteen year sentence on each count, which will run concurrently. Lawhorne will also pay restitution of about $2.1 million to the victims and to be forced to give up money taken during his Florida arrest and from a bank account. Lawhorne owned Cypress Creek and served as its CEO. The company began in April 2013 with the purpose of recruiting people to grow organic tomatoes. In return for a $9,950 investment, the company would provide all of the [...]

By |August 19th, 2015|Fraud, Press Releases & News|
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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 sentenced Duncan to twenty years' imprisonment for violating the Alabama Securities Act. Duncan is serving the first five years of his sentence, but the latter fifteen years will be suspended on the condition that he make complete restitution to all victims and file sworn quarterly financial reports accounting for the sources of funds used to make the payments. An investigation by the Commission discovered that, despite the fact that Duncan is in the custody of the Alabama Corrections Department, he received stock dividends, which the Court considers personal assets/income, that should be allocated to pay restitution to his victims. In January 2015, the Commission's legal [...]

By |May 11th, 2015|Press Releases & News|
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