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Alts fund manager Daniel Thibeault arrested in securities fraud
December 17th, 2014
The FBI accused GL Capital Partners CEO of creating fictitious loans to divert $12.6 million in assets to business accounts A prominent alternative fund manager in Waltham, Mass., was arrested on securities fraud charges last week after the FBI ...
Boiler room fraudsters ordered to pay £843k
December 15th, 2014
Two men involved in a £70 million boiler room fraud have been ordered to pay £843,000 between them after being found guilty of conspiracy to defraud. In 2010 Philip Morris and Daniel Gooding were among the nine fraudsters found ...
Boss of hedge fund Weavering battles fraud charges in London court
December 15th, 2014
Magnus Peterson, battling fraud charges after his $600 million Weavering hedge fund collapsed during the financial crisis, told a court on Friday he could not remember which investors he had warned about his fund’s use of complex financial instruments. ...
Melbourne lawyer jailed for 12 years for $12m Ponzi fraud
December 10th, 2014
‘Many of your victims trusted you because you were a family member or friend, you exploited their trust for your own personal gain,’ judge tells Philip Linacre A Melbourne lawyer who stole from grieving widows, a famous musician and ...
Audit Office says benefits fraud and error costs £72m
December 9th, 2014
Benefit overpayments due to fraud and error in Northern Ireland rose to £72m in 2013, according to figures contained in an Audit Office report. The 2013 total is an increase of £3m on the previous year and relates to ...
Currency trader whizz kid ‘masterminded £5.5m Ponzi fraud’
December 4th, 2014
A foreign currency trader used investors’ cash as his “personal piggy-bank” and blew £1 million in casinos and £500,000 in nightclubs, a court heard. Financial whizz kid Alex Hope, 25, masterminded a £5.5m Ponzi fraud to fund his hedonistic lifestyle ...
SEC Charges California Resident With Fraudulent Sales of Stock
December 3rd, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the owner of several now-defunct investment entities with fraudulently selling shares of stock that he claimed to own when he had actually purchased them for others a few years before. The SEC ...
HSBC says target of French tax fraud probe
November 24th, 2014
HSBC Private Bank, the Swiss subsidiary of British banking group HSBC, said Friday (Nov 21) it had been placed under formal investigation as part of a French tax fraud probe. The bank said magistrates were “examining whether the bank ...
5 ways fraudsters trick investors
November 20th, 2014
Fraudsters use sleights of hand and other trickery that even magicians would be envious of. Americans lose an estimated $50 billion a year to fraud, including Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes and other types of investment fraud. “People fall for ...
SEC Charges Unregistered Broker With Stealing From Investors in Fraudulent Day Trading Scheme
November 19th, 2014
The SEC alleges that Albert J. Scipione and his business partner solicited investors to establish accounts at their company called Traders Café for the purposes of day trading, which entails the rapid buying and selling of stocks throughout the ...
