by Broker Fraud | Jul 28, 2020 | Investment Fraud, Securities Fraud
Banks are subject to rules which require them to verify the identity of their customers. This is a problem for criminals who have large sums of cash from illegal activities. Increasingly, criminals have turned to cryptocurrency to launder their cash. Chainalysis, a...
by Broker Fraud | Mar 28, 2020 | Investment Fraud, Securities Fraud
Wells Fargo Settles with SEC Over Charges Related to Single Inverse EFT Investments The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced on February 27, 2020, that it had settled charges it lodged against Wells Fargo Clearing Services and Wells Fargo Advisors...
by Broker Fraud | Feb 29, 2020 | Investment Fraud, Securities Fraud, Securities Litigation
The psychology behind celebrity endorsements of products seems simplistic. The human brain recognizes celebrities similarly to how it recognizes people we actually know.1 People feel that they know the celebrity and that they can trust the celebrity and when that...
by Broker Fraud | Jan 31, 2020 | Investment Fraud, Ponzi Scheme
The legal recreational marijuana industry is in its infancy in Michigan, but so far it appears to be a booming business. In the first two weeks of December 2019 just a few licensed retail shops grossed more than $3 million in sales and the projections by state budget...
by Broker Fraud | Nov 27, 2019 | Investment Fraud, Securities Litigation
SEC Charges Former Executives of Healthcare Advertising Firm with $1 Billion Fraud Outcome Health, formerly named ContextMedia, offers their clients, which are primarily pharmaceutical companies, the opportunity to display the client’s ads on televisions and...
by Broker Fraud | Oct 29, 2019 | Investment Fraud, Securities Fraud
SEC Files Charges Against Binary Options Brokers LBinary and Ivory Options Two citizens of Israel, Anton Senderov and Lior Babazara (also known as Lior Bar), were charged by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 9, 2019, with causing over 2,800...
