Over two grueling weeks, convicted Florida Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein laid out in incriminating detail how far the tentacles stretched in his $1.2 billion fraud, pointing the finger at numerous lawyers, bankers, business people, relatives, friends and unnamed law enforcement officials and politicians. The testimony, made public in hundreds of pages of transcripts, could form […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued a Georgia attorney and his client for securities fraud for failing to disclose the client’s criminal indictment in offering documents related to the 2006 sale of $2.96 million of industrial redevelopment revenue bonds by Raleigh County, W. Va. The SEC’s complaints, filed in federal courts in Georgia and […]
On December 15, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil injunctive action against Stephen M. Folan, a former registered representative in the Chicago office of FTN Financial Securities Corp. (“FTN”), for assisting Sentinel Management Group, Inc. (“Sentinel”), a bankrupt former investment adviser, in its fraud against its advisory clients. The SEC’s complaint alleges […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, December 16, 2011, charged six former top executives of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) with securities fraud, alleging they knew and approved of misleading statements claiming the companies had minimal holdings of higher-risk mortgage loans, including […]
On December 19, 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a longtime Bernie Madoff employee with falsifying books and records in order to hide Madoff’s fraudulent investment advisory operations from regulators. The SEC alleges that Enrica Cotellessa-Pitz, who worked at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BMIS) for more than 30 years, assisted in falsifying […]