On May 3, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced an enforcement action against auditing firm BF Borgers CPA PC and its principal, Benjamin F. Borgers. The regulator charged the firm with “deliberate and systemic failures to comply… Read More
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Ross Mandell, a former broker and the owner of Sky Capital LLC and Sky Capital Holdings Ltd. was released from federal home confinement in early January of this year. He isn’t letting grass grow under his feet: he… Read More
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We’ve often written about “toxic” promissory notes or preferred stock and the unregistered dealers who purchase them. These dealers are not the broker-dealers ordinary retail investors have accounts with. They are individuals with companies of their own that… Read More
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Short selling, the practice of betting a stock will go down, not up, has been controversial since it was invented more than 400 years ago in the Netherlands. In the early 1600s, there was only one stock in… Read More
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On December 4, 2023, Swiss private bank Banque Pictet et Cie SA admitted to conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide more than $5.6 billion in 1,637 secret bank accounts in Switzerland and elsewhere and to conceal… Read More
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In the past three years, some important changes have occurred to how “penny stocks” or “microcaps” trade and are regulated. By the early 2000s, they’d moved from the obscurity of the National Quotation Bureau’s Pink Sheets to a… Read More
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Just about everybody knows what a “pump-and-dump” scheme is. It’s a type of price manipulation where bad actors use falsified, heavily promoted news, financial statements or other marketing communications to increase volume and manipulate the market price of… Read More
Category: Blog Posts Tags: bad actors, China, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, foreign Issuers, IPO, price manipulation, pump and dump, ramp-and-dump, scam, SEC, SEC Action, SEC Administrative Proceeding, SEC Attorney, SEC Charges, SEC Claim, SEC Defendant, SEC Defense, SEC Defense Attorney, SEC Defense Lawyer, SEC enforcement, SEC Fraud, SEC Injunction, SEC Law Firm, SEC Lawsuit, SEC Lawyer, SEC Litigation, SEC Penny Stock Bar, SEC Subpoena, SEC Suit, Securities Attorney, Securities Fraud, Securities Law Defense, small-cap, Social Media, stock scheme
On May 18, 2023, Mark Miller became the last of three men to be sentenced for a securities fraud scheme that involved hijacking several abandoned penny stocks, then using them for an illegal pump-and-dump stock manipulation scheme. Miller… Read More
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On Thursday, April 20, 2023, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation… Read More
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Charles McGonigal, a former top counterintelligence official in the FBI’s New York Field Office, who retired from the FBI in 2018, has been arrested and charged in two separate cases involving his dealings with foreign operatives, including billionaire… Read More
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A week before the 2022 midterm elections, the ranking members of four important committees of the House of Representatives composed and jointly signed a letter to Gary Gensler, Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, demanding answers to… Read More
Category: Blog Posts Tags: Bill Huizenga, broker-dealer, CFTC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, congress, crypto, Cryptocurrencies, defi, Elad Roisman, FTX, Gary Gensler, Hester Peirce, House, House of Representatives, James Comer, Jim Jordan, Pat Toomey, Patrick McHenry, Republicans, securities, Securities and Exchange Commission, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Financial Services, Tom Emmer
By now, most people have heard about the epic collapse of FTX. The crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried (“SBF”) was once the 3rd largest crypto exchange, with an estimated valuation of $32 billion, and is now in… Read More
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According to various internet reports, Nasdaq Inc has halted the initial public offerings (IPOs) of at least four small Chinese companies while it investigates short-lived stock rallies of other recent Chinese IPOs after going public. Several small Chinese… Read More
Category: Blog Posts Tags: Addentax Group Corp, Amtd Digital Inc, ATXG, China, Chinese IPO, Chinese Stocks, HKD, Initial Public Offerings, IPO, Jianzhi Education Technology Group Company Limited, JZ, Magic Empire Global Ltd, MEGL, nasdaq, Nasdaq Inc, Penny Stock, pre-IPO, pump and dump, stock manipulation
The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) announced Friday that both sides signed an agreement to allow U.S. regulators to inspect the audits of Chinese companies whose stocks are traded on U.S…. Read More
Category: Blog Posts Tags: Aliaba, Alibaba, China Publicly Traded, China Securities Regulatory Commission, Chinese Issuer, CSRC, Foreign Issuer, Foreign Private Issuer, Form F-1 Registration Statement, Form S-1 Offering, Form S-1 Resale, Go Public, Going Public, Going Public Law Firm, HFCAA, nasdaq, NASDAQ stock market, New York Stock Exchange, nyse, PCAOB, SEC Attorney, SEC Lawyer, SEC Reporting, SEC Reporting Obligations, U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
On March 24, 2022, as an anxious world hoped for positive results from a NATO meeting convened to address the ongoing war in Ukraine, former President Donald Trump sought to redress the harm he believes was done to… Read More
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In mid-January 2022, British tabloid the Daily Mail published a long story about U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son Paul Jr, in which it was alleged that he’d been involved in a number of shady businesses, some of… Read More
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On May 20, 2021, Ted Brent Alexander and Jon Darrell Seawright both of Jackson, Mississippi, were indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a large multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme that adversely affected hundreds of victims across multiple states over about eight years.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission case against Robinhood Financial moved one step closer to a payout when the SEC issued an Order appointing JND Legal Administration as the Fund Administrator of the Fair Fund established for the $65,000,000 that Robinhood Financial had agreed to pay on December 17, 2020.
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On Wednesday, April 7th, six South Florida residents were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges that they defrauded investors of approximately $21 million by falsely claiming that the investors’ money would go towards the development of… Read More
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On December 17, 2020, the US Department of Justice unsealed an Indictment against nine individuals charged in a “pump and dump” stock manipulation scheme involving Global Resource Energy Inc (GBEN) filed in the Northern District of Ohio, Eastern Division.
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The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation on Wednesday that would kick Chinese companies off U.S. stock exchanges if they do not fully comply with the U.S. auditing rules.
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As business owners, it’s important that you watch out for all of these forms of business identity theft. Your business, whether big or small, is vulnerable to all of these schemes, just by virtue of being in business.
Swedish multinational corporation Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, better known as simply “Ericsson”, was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “with engaging in a large-scale bribery scheme involving the use of sham consultants to secretly funnel money to… Read More
Though FINRA’s principal mandate is to regulate broker-dealers, historically it has always exercised some oversight of the over-the-counter markets including all tiers of the OTC Markets. Part of that oversight involves processing corporate action requests from issuers of… Read More
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On October 24, 2019, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced a settled enforcement action involving BNP Paribas Securities Corp. and BNP Paribas Prime Brokerage, Inc. A lengthy FINRA investigation found that although the firms did a brisk… Read More
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Ross Mandell was the founder of Sky Capital Holdings, Ltd., a venture capital firm and brokerage. He is currently serving a 12 year sentence for defrauding investors of over $100 million from 2001 to 2006. His case was… Read More
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have announced charges against five individuals, who the authorities allege attempted to manipulate shares of Boston-based Amogear Inc. A… Read More
Imagine you were a businessman whose company operated in New York and London, and whose stock traded on the AIM, the London Stock Exchange’s venture market. One day in 2006, your New York offices are raided by the… Read More
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Complying with Rule 6490’s requirements may entail an unanticipated legal and compliance cost for issuers and their securities attorneys, who may be unfamiliar with FINRA’s authority under 10b-17. Additionally, many OTC Markets issuers are not prepared for the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) review that may be prompted by the issuer’s corporate action notification.
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FINRA & Penny Stocks When the subject of penny stock enforcement actions arises, most people think first of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), or erroneously, of OTC Markets Group (OTCM). The SEC has ultimate authority to deal with… Read More
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