SEC Charges Daniel Thibeault with Misappropriating Millions in Investor Funds

On March 14, 2016 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that on March 3, 2016, Daniel Thibeault, the President/CEO of a group of Massachusetts-based investment advisory companies, pled guilty to criminal charges in connection with the misappropriation of more than $15 million from an investment fund. The criminal charges against Thibeault arose out of the same fraudulent conduct alleged by the SEC in a civil securities fraud action filed against Thibeault and others in January 2015. Thibeault plead guilty to charges of securities fraud for the scheme to use fund money to issue fictitious loans, and obstruction of justice for Thibeault’s numerous false statements to SEC staff during the SEC’s investigation of this fraud.

The SEC previously charged Thibeault, GL Capital Partners, LLC, and other related entities with securities fraud and fraud by an investment adviser. The SEC’s complaint alleges that GL Capital Partners, LLC and its principal, Thibeault, were the investment advisers to a fund called the GL Beyond Income Fund, and that they misappropriated at least $15 million of the money that belonged to this fund. The GL Beyond Income Fund’s assets consisted primarily of individual variable rate consumer loans. According to the complaint, Thibeault and other defendants solicited investments in the GL Beyond Income Fund by representing that investors’ money would be pooled and used to make or purchase consumer loans. These consumer loans would then constitute assets of the GL Beyond Income Fund, and would provide a return to the investors when interest and principal payments were made on the loans. The SEC alleges that beginning in 2013 or earlier, Thibeault and the other defendants engaged in a scheme to create fictitious loans to divert investor money from the GL Beyond Income Fund, and to report these fake loans as assets of the GL Beyond Income Fund. This scheme was designed to conceal the fact that Thibeault and the other defendants had misappropriated millions of dollars from the GL Beyond Income Fund.

The SEC’s action, which remains pending, seeks injunctions against each of the defendants from further violations of the charged provisions of the federal securities laws, disgorgement of illicit earnings, and civil penalties.

For further information about this securities law blog  post, please contact Brenda Hamilton, Securities Attorney at 101 Plaza Real S, Suite 202 N, Boca Raton, Florida, (561) 416-8956, by email at [email protected] or visit  www.securitieslawyer101.com.   This securities law blog post is provided as a general informational service to clients and friends of Hamilton & Associates Law Group and should not be construed as, and does not constitute legal advice on any specific matter, nor does this message create an attorney-client relationship.  Please note that the prior results discussed herein do not guarantee similar outcomes.

Hamilton & Associates | Securities Lawyers
Brenda Hamilton, Securities Attorney
101 Plaza Real South, Suite 202 North
Boca Raton, Florida 33432
Telephone: (561) 416-8956
Facsimile: (561) 416-2855