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Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - December 12th, 2014

(Dec 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC Sanctions Eight Audit Firms for Violating Auditor Independence Rules
December 8, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 272)
The SEC sanctioned the following firms for violating auditor's independence criteria: BKD LLP, Boros & Farrington Accountancy Corporation, Brace & Associates PLLC, Robert Cooper & Company CPA PC, Lally & Co LLC, Lerner & Sipkin CPAs LLP, OUM & Co LLP, and Joseph Yafeh CPA Inc. While performing audits for their broker-dealer clients, these firms...

El Costo de 15 Días para los Clientes de UBS en Puerto Rico fue por Encima de $1 Billón

(Dec 2014)

En las últimas entradas a nuestro blog hemos demostrado que UBS suscribió $1.7 billones en bonos inmercadeables de la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro (ASR) y los compró para colocarlos en sus Fondos UBS PR. Usted puede encontrar nuestra entrada anterior aquí. UBS creo cupo para estos bonos de la ASR al vender otros bonos no suscritos por UBS. UBS compró los bonos que suscribió de la ASR en el 2008 porque nadie más los compraría.

Recientemente, habíamos ilustrado como el conflicto de...

En el 2007 y 2008, Los Fondos UBS PR También Compraron $1.35 Billones en Bonos de la COFINA Suscritos por UBS

(Nov 2014)

Ayer demostramos que en el 2008, UBS suscribió $1.7 billones de bonos inmercadeables de la ASR y los compró para sus Fondos UBS PR, disponible aquí. Hoy, mostraremos que del año 2007 al año 2008 conflictos similares llevaron a UBS a suscribir bonos inmercadeables de la Corporación del Fondo de Interés Apremiante (COFINA) para colocarlos en sus Fondos.

COFINA Serie 2007A

El banco de inversión UBS fue uno de los diecinueve co-suscritores de los $2.7 billones de bonos Serie A dirigidos a...

En el 2008, UBS Sucumbe Ante Conflictos y Compra $1.7 Billones en Bonos de la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro para Colocarlos en sus Fondos de Bonos Municipales de Puerto Rico

(Nov 2014)

En la entrada de hoy mostraremos cómo en el 2008 UBS suscribió bonos inmercadeables de la Administración de los Sistemas de Retiro y luego los compró para colocarlos en Fondos UBS. El viernes mostraremos cómo conflictos similares llevaron a UBS a suscribir bonos inmercadeables de la COFINA para luego colocarlos nuevamente en Fondos UBS.

El sistema de retiro de empleados de Puerto Rico estaba grave y crónicamente sin recursos suficientes para mantener el pago de sus obligaciones. El Gráfico 1...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - October 17th, 2014

(Oct 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC Obtains Summary Judgment Against Defendants in Securities Fraud Involving Biopharmaceutical Company
October 15, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23114 )
On October 10, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted the Commission's motion for "summary judgment and for partial summary judgment, respectively, against Defendants Douglas McClain, Sr. ("McClain Sr."), of Fair Oaks, Texas, and Douglas McClain Jr. ("McClain Jr."), formerly of...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - October 10th, 2014

(Oct 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC Obtains Final Judgment Against Paul T. Mannion, Jr., Andrew S. Reckles, Pef Advisors LLC, and Pef Advisors Ltd.
October 8, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23108 )
The SEC announced that on September 29, 2014, the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia entered a final judgment against Paul T. Mannion, JR., Andrew S. Reckles, PEF Advisors LLC and PEF Advisors Ltd. The Court found that Mannion and Reckles, co-owners of both PEF Advisors entities, had...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - October 3rd, 2014

(Oct 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC v. Patrick G. Rooney, John R. Rooney, and Positron Corporation, Civil Action No. 9:14-cv-81224-KAM (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida)
October 3, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23103)
The SEC announced that on September 30, it had filed a civil injunctive action against Positron Corporation, Patrick Rooney, the company's former CEO and John R. Rooney, a promoter of penny stocks. Positron, a microcap company, as well as Patrick Rooney and...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - September 26th, 2014

(Sep 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

Court Enters Final Judgments Against CEO and Executive Vice President of Company Involved in Pump-And-Dump Scheme Involving Fictitious Buyout Offer
September 25, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23092)
The SEC announced that the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered final judgments against Maximilien Arella, CEO, and Ian Morrice, the Executive Vice President, both of Spencer Pharmaceutical Inc. (a microcap pharmaceutical company). Permanent...

Enforcement Actions: Week in Review - September 19th, 2014

(Sep 2014)

SEC ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

SEC Charges Eight for Roles in Widespread Pump-And-Dump Scheme Involving California-Based Microcap Company
September 18, 2014 (Litigation Release No. 23087)
Charges were filed against eight individuals cooperating in what the SEC alleges is a "pump-and-dump scheme involving a penny stock company...that has repeatedly changed its name and purported line of business over the past several years." The SEC named Izak Zirk de Maison and Angelique de Maison as the...

FINRA Enforcement Actions: Month in Review

(Jun 2014)

MAY 2014 SELECTED FINRA ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS

FIRMS FINED

ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC (CRD #14020, Chicago, Illinois)
ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago LLC consented to a censure and $95,000 fine for allegedly failing "to report short interest positions to the New York Stock Exchange and FINRA on certain settlement dates, and submitt[ing] to FINRA an inaccurate short-interest position report." FINRA found that the firm's supervisory system did not provide for supervision reasonably designed to achieve...

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