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Financial and Investment Fraud

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October 17, 2022

Posted  10/17/22
In one of New Jersey’s largest civil monetary recoveries ever, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp., and DLJ Mortgage Capital, Inc. (collectively, “Credit Suisse”) has agreed to pay $495 million to settle a lawsuit involving misrepresentations it made to investors on the risks of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) in the years leading up to the 2008...
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October 7, 2022

Posted  10/7/22
After over a decade on the run, Baron Matson of Australia has been sentenced to 5 years in prison, ordered to pay $4.3 million in restitution, and ordered to forfeit $1.3 million for deceiving investors in Florida, Georgia, and Tennessee over twenty years ago.  Matson had misrepresented to investors that he and his father, Roger Matson—both operating under the surname Bronstein—earned large sums of money by...
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October 4, 2022

A rancher who was convicted of defrauding two food companies out of $244 million, in one of the largest fraud schemes ever prosecuted in the Eastern District of Washington, has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison.  Cody Allen Easterday and his Easterday Ranches Inc. had entered into agreements with Tyson Foods and one other company, whereby the two food companies would advance Easterday funds for buying and raising cattle, then be repaid with interest after the cattle were slaughtered and sold.  Rather than buying and raising cattle, however, Easterday used the funds to cover losses incurred from commodity futures trading, benefit the ranch, and benefit himself.  Easterday also submitted false paperwork to the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, the CME Group Inc., to exempt his ranch from certain position limits in live cattle futures contracts.  USAO EDWA

Tagged in: Financial and Investment Fraud,

September 30, 2022

Posted  09/30/22
In order to settle charges of failing to perform proper audits of a company committing fraud, audit firm RSM US LLP has been ordered to pay $3.75 million and retain an independent consultant, while partners Steven Kirn and Richard Condon, and senior audit manager Michael Piqueira have agreed to be suspended for 1-3 years.  Over the four-year period in which RSM audited Revolution Lighting Technologies Inc., RSM...
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The Scale of Crypto Fraud

Posted  09/27/22
Hundred Dollars Bills and Crypto Coins
Whistleblower associate Liz Soltan, along with Alex Cala of Taxpayers Against Fraud, recently wrote about the massive scale of cryptocurrency fraud on the TAF blog. As use of crypto has increased, so too have scams. Between Jan. 31, 2021 and March 31, 2022, over 46,000 people made reports to the FTC about losing money in crypto fraud, with losses totaling over $1 billion. And that’s just victims who chose to make...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Cryptocurrency, Financial and Investment Fraud,

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Book Review: "Money Men," by Dan McCrum

Posted  09/23/22
By Alicja Dijakiewicz-Kocon
Whistleblower Bookshelf Money Men by Dan McCrum-2
When in 2014, Dan McCrum, a bank analyst turned investigative journalist, received a tip about “German gangsters” running a company that advertised itself as the German PayPal, he could not have imagined that his reporting would allow him to expose the biggest corporate scandal in post-war Germany. Although McCrum’s book, Money Men may read like a gripping crime drama, it is a meticulously-documented...

Tagged in: CC Lawyers, Financial and Investment Fraud, Money Laundering, Whistleblower Bookshelf,

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September 23, 2022

Posted  09/23/22
A man in Texas, James Clark Nix, has been sentenced to 48 years in federal prison after being found guilty of defrauding investors of at least $6 million in a Ponzi scheme spanning multiple decades.  Using his position as an accountant, Nix had promised investors—many of them his own friends—high interest returns of up to 10%, leading many to entrust him with their life’s savings.  USAO EDTX
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September 22, 2022

Posted  09/22/22
The Boeing Company and its former CEO, Dennis A. Muilenburg, have agreed to pay $200 million and $1 million respectively, in order to resolve SEC charges of making materially misleading statements to investors following crashes of two 737 MAX planes in 2018 and 2019.  Despite knowing the MCAS system at fault would be an ongoing safety issue, Boeing and Muilenburg repeatedly assured investors and the public...
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Crypto projects are toying with public funds. The False Claims Act will be a powerful tool in holding them to account

Posted  09/21/22
cryptocurrency and stocks
Last month, the Fairfax County Retirement System shared that they will be putting $70 million of their $6.8 billion fund into two crypto yield farming funds. In other words, pension money that allows teachers, firefighters, and police officers to retire will be invested into volatile digital tokens known as yield-farming projects. Yield-farming projects offer yields that are significantly higher than those...

Tagged in: Cryptocurrency, FCA State, Financial and Investment Fraud,

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September 20, 2022

Posted  09/20/22
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MSSB) has agreed to pay $35 million to the SEC to settle charges of failing to protect the personal identifying information (PII) of some 15 million customers.  Between 2015 to 2020, MSSB failed to properly encrypt PII or properly dispose of devices and servers containing PII.  As a result, decommissioned devices containing unencrypted PII were resold by a third party via an internet...
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