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SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - March 8th, 2013

(Mar 2013)

SEC Charges Robert Crane for Market Manipulation
March 7, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22636)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), in 2010 Robert Crane manipulated the market of two penny stocks: Argentex Mining Corporation and ERHC Energy Inc. The complaint charges Crane with violating sections of the Securities Act and Exchange Act. A court order was entered against him that permanently enjoins him from future violations of those laws and also imposes a penny stock bar against...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - March 1st, 2013

(Mar 2013)

Defendant Adam S. Rosengard Settles SEC Charges in Penny Stock Manipulation Case
February 27, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22626)
A final judgment was entered this Monday against Adam S. Rosengard for his alleged involvement in a stock manipulation scheme. According to the SEC's original complaint, Pawel P. Dynkowski and other defendants manipulated the price of Xtreme Motorsports of California, Inc.'s stock through "wash sales, matched orders and other manipulative trading." Rosengard then...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - February 22nd, 2013

(Feb 2013)

SEC Charges Fund Manager in Scheme Involving Risky Mortgage-Related Investment
February 20, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22622)
According to the complaint, George Charles Cody Price "raised $18 million for three investment funds through his firm ABS Manager LLC" promising investors that their investments were "secured by government-backed bonds yielding extraordinary double-digit returns as high as 18 percent per year." In reality, Price was allegedly "investing in one the riskiest tranches...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - February 15th, 2013

(Feb 2013)

Court Enters Final Judgments Against Former Wall Street Banker, Downstream Russian Trader and Trader's Wife in Insider Trading Scheme
February 13, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22617)
A final judgment has been entered against Alexander Vorobiev and his wife, "relief defendant Tatiana Vorobieva," for their involvement in an insider trading scheme that resulted in over $1 million in illegal profits. Vorobiev traded using insider information regarding "numerous health care-related acquisitions,...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - February 8th, 2013

(Feb 2013)

Steven Harrold Settles SEC Insider Trading Charges
February 6, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22613)
Afinal judgment was entered against Steven Harrold, former executive at a Coca-Cola bottling company, for his alleged insider trading "based on confidential information he learned on the job" concerning Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc.'s planned acquisition of The Coca-Cola Company's " bottling operations in Norway and Sweden. "The judgment permanently enjoins Harrold from future violations of various...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review -February 1st, 2013

(Feb 2013)

SEC Charges Five Former Executives of Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas in $300 Million Real Estate Investment Fraud
January 30, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22607)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), Cay Clubs Resorts and Marinas' former executives, Fred Davis Clark, Jr., Cristal R. Coleman, David W. Schwarz, Barry J. Graham, and Ricky Lynn Stokes conducted "an offering fraud and Ponzi scheme that raised more than $300 million from nearly 1,400 investors nationwide." Allegedly, from 2004...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - January 25th, 2013

(Jan 2013)

Randy M. Cho Sentenced to Prison Term of 12 Years in Criminal Action
January 24, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22601)
Randy M. Cho was sentenced in a criminal action to 12 years in federal prison on charges of "perpetrating an investment scheme between 2001 and October 2009, which resulted in almost $8 million in losses from 57 investors." In addition to the prison sentence, Cho has been ordered to pay restitution of almost $8 million. In 2009, the SEC permanently enjoined Cho from violating...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - January 18th, 2013

(Jan 2013)

SEC Charges Georgia Resident with Insider Trading
January 17, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22596)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), John M. Darden III traded with non-public information regarding the merger between Southwest Airlines Company and AirTran Holdings, Inc. Darden, who gained over $150,000 in profits from the illicit trading, agreed to a final judgment that provides permanent injunctive relief and orders him to pay over $325,000 in disgorgement, pre-judgment interest, and...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - January 11th, 2013

(Jan 2013)

Court Orders New York-Based Hedge Fund Manager and Firm to Pay Nearly $5 Million in Disgorgement and Penalties
January 9, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22588)
Final judgments were entered against hedge fund manager Chetan Kapur and his firm ThinkStrategy Capital Management for allegedly overstating the performance of their ThinkStrategy Capital Fund, "inflat[ing] the firm's assets, exaggerat[ing] the firm's longevity and performance history, and misrepresent[ing] the size and credentials of...

SEC Litigation Releases: Week in Review - January 4th, 2013

(Jan 2013)

SEC Charges California Company and CEO with Defrauding Investors in Nevada Gold Mining Venture
January 3, 2013, (Litigation Release No. 22585)
According to the complaint (opens to PDF), Nekekim Corporation and its CEO, Kenneth Carlton, "induced hundreds of investors to pour $16 million into a fruitless gold mining venture." From 2001 to 2011, the defendants attracted investors claiming that a physicist (who in reality "had no scientific training") helped "develop a confidential gold extraction...

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