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SEC Actions This Week: Trying Really Hard to Be Scandalous Apr29

Posted 6:17 pm by Ann Logue & filed under Fraud.

In a world of clumsy insider trading and pump-and-dump schemes, it’s always interesting when professional money managers come up with a new way to defraud investors. This week brought SEC actions involving two spectacular scandals

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SEC Actions this Week: Penny Stock Frauds are as Popular as Ever Apr22

Posted 3:36 pm by Ann Logue & filed under Fraud.

Once again, the SEC has issued charges against a penny stock pump-and-dump scheme. This time, 16 people with ties to various countries in the Caribbean as well as Bulgaria, Canada, Monaco, Spain, Turkey, and the United Kingdom have been accused of operating schemes that generated more than $194 million in illicit proceeds

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SEC Actions this Week: Charges in a Surreal Takeover Scheme Apr8

Posted 12:38 pm by Ann Logue & filed under Crime, Fraud.

This week, the SEC filed charges against Melville ten Cate for making an elaborate but infeasible takeover bid for Textron (NYSE: TXT), the defense and aerospace giant, through a company that had no revenue or capital

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SEC Actions this Week: Another Generation Discovers that Insider Trading is Wrong Apr1

Posted 9:10 pm by Ann Logue & filed under Fraud.

Toilet paper manufacturers weren’t the only beneficiaries in Covid’s early days. At Twilio, a few engineers noticed that customers were using the company’s communication services far more than before. They worked in the billing department, so they knew just how much higher revenue was going to be

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SEC Actions this Week: Penny Stock Frauds Connect the Americas Mar18

Posted 1:01 pm by Ann Logue & filed under Fraud.

Although it may seem like all the pump and dump schemes moved on to crypto, there are still some old-school penny stock hustlers working the boiler rooms. The SEC charged a five-person, multi-national team with running a $58 million penny stock scam targeting US investors from a call center in Colombia

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