July 28, 2020

Savraj Gata-Aura, a British citizen, has been sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to forfeit nearly $3 million for his role in a massive Ponzi scheme involving coworking space Bar Works that defrauded over 800 investors of more than $40 million.  Together with fellow British citizen Renwick Haddow—who was widely reported to be disqualified from serving as the director of a U.K. company and was managing Bar Works under the alias “Jonathan Black”—Gata-Aura solicited investors by making material misrepresentations about Bar Works’ management and the company’s financial condition.  Haddow is due to be sentenced later this year.  USAO SDNY