Search Results for: defrauding
Individual and a Company fined in virtual currencies fraud
August 27th, 2018
A New York federal court entered final judgment ordering Patrick K. McDonnell of Staten Island, New York, and CabbageTech, Corp. d/b/a Coin Drop Markets (CDM), McDonnell’s New York-based company, to pay over $1.1 million in civil monetary penalties and ...
US seeks record $75m. from marketer for steering victims to Israeli binary scams
July 19th, 2018
While Israeli law enforcement continues to ignore the country’s robust online fraud sector, the United States government has asked a Florida court to impose some $75 million in fines and penalties against a single alleged US-based binary options fraudster. ...
U.S. court fined company for fraud in a commodity futures day-trading system
June 27th, 2018
Federal Court orders Jody Dupont of Anderson, South Carolina, and his company, Open Range Trading LLC, to pay $192,000 for defrauding customers in connection with offering and selling futures trading system. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that ...
The egregious errors of static statistics
March 22nd, 2018
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Lord Macaulay wrote this nearly two hundred years ago. His aphorism is particularly apposite of modern politicians, ...
Several current and former KPMG partners face court contempt
December 20th, 2017
Several current and former KPMG partners are facing contempt proceedings in a Hong Kong court, as liquidators for a failed U.S.-listed Chinese company step up their action against the auditor over its refusal to produce Chinese working papers. The ...
Former Private Equity Firm Partner Charged With Secretly Billing Clients for His Vacations and Salon Visits
October 26th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Mohammed Ali Rashid, a former senior partner at Apollo Management L.P., with defrauding his fund clients by secretly billing them for approximately $290,000 in personal expenditures, including his family vacations, visits to a ...
Former HSBC Executive Found Guilty of Fraud in $3.5 Billion Currency Trade
October 24th, 2017
A U.S. jury on Monday found former HSBC executive Mark Johnson guilty of defrauding Cairn Energy (CRNZF, +0.00%) in a $3.5 billion currency trade in 2011. U.S. prosecutors have said that Mark Johnson, formerly head of HSBC’s global foreign ...
Israel bans binary options industry; Operatives have three months to shut down
October 24th, 2017
The Knesset on Monday unanimously passed a law to ban Israel’s binary options industry, a vast, multibillion dollar scam that has defrauded millions of victims worldwide for a decade. The law, which will go into effect three months from ...
FBI arrests Israeli binary options CEO
September 27th, 2017
The CEO of an Israeli binary options company accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars was doubtless surprised to find herself surrounded by FBI agents shortly after arriving in the United States last week. Binary options is ...
Assurance Capital Management and its owners fined $2.4 Million
July 12th, 2017
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a press release to inform that the Federal Court in Florida Orders Anthony J. Klatch II, Lindsey Heim, and their Company Assurance Capital Management, LLC to Pay More than $2.4 ...
