The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has charged two Michigan men with fraud for their roles in a fake accounts scheme perpetrated by a phony day-trading firm, Nonko Trading. The SEC alleges that Jeffrey Goldman of West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Christopher Eikenberry of Birmingham, Michigan, participated in and profited from…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that it has filed charges and obtained an asset freeze against the individuals and companies behind a $102 million Ponzi scheme that bilked investors throughout the U.S. According to the SEC’s complaint, the defendants defrauded more than 600 investors through sales of securities in issuers they controlled,…
Read moreProbably the largest Ponzi scheme in the modern world was "designed" by Bernie Madoff who scammed corporate America with around $70 billion back in 2008. Now, as cryptocurrencies garnish share in the world's economy, it is not surprising to learn that there are also cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes. One such is called OneCoin. OneCoin is a…
Read moreThe U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that it has filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against defendants Omega Knight 2, LLC, its owner and president, Aviv Michael Hen of Great Neck, New York, and Erez Hen of Florida. The CFTC’s complaint charges the defendants with…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the unsealing of fraud charges against a Mississippi company and its principal who allegedly bilked at least 150 investors in an $85 million Ponzi scheme. The defendants agreed to permanent injunctions, an asset freeze, and expedited discovery. The SEC’s complaint alleges that Arthur Lamar Adams lied to investors…
Read moreThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Defendants The Kane Capital Investment Group, LLC (Kane Capital), a commodity pool organized in Virginia, and its principal, Amrit Jaswant Singh Chahal (Chahal) of Fairfax, Virginia. The CFTC…
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Defendants allegedly solicited more than $6 million for investments in a virtual currency known as “My Big Coin” The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced the filing of a federal court enforcement action under seal on January 16, 2018, charging commodity fraud and misappropriation related to the ongoing solicitation of customers for a virtual…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges and an asset freeze against a group of unregistered funds and their owner who allegedly bilked thousands of retail investors, many of them seniors, in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. SEC investigators filed this action to prevent further dissipation of investor assets after obtaining court orders in September and November in subpoena enforcement actions that forced…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Westchester, New York-based investment adviser with fraud stemming from lies to retail investors about the value of their investments in a Ponzi-like scheme. The SEC alleges that, starting in approximately 2010, Michael Scronic began to raise money from at least 42 friends and acquaintances, many of…
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As reported by Frank Chaparro at Business Insider, Nicholas Gelfman, a head trader at Gelfman Blueprint, a company based in New York, solicited $600,000 from around 80 clients, essentially forming a Ponzi scheme with Bitcoin. According to CFTC, certain investors came in to Gelfman firm, gave him money “for placement in a pooled commodity fund…
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