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New Member: Hadari Oshri AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against Investor News reporter Aitana Vargas to stop the publication of her investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of White-Collar crime,” and any subsequent installments or future media coverage. On August 3, 2021, Vargas...

News correspondent Aitana Vargas seeks over $23K in attorney’s fees following her successful anti-SLAPP motion to strike Oshri’s frivolous case AN IMPORTANT NOTE: On June 22, 2021, Hadari Oshri –Marc Lubaszka’s business partner– filed a civil harassment restraining order (CHRO) against Investor News reporter Aitana Vargas to stop the publication of her investigative series “A Special Report: The Harrowing Impunity of...

SEC Raises Threshold for Reg A+ Offerings to $75 Million On November 2, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) approved amendments, originally proposed in the SEC’s June 2019 concept release and March 2020 proposing release, to its “patchwork” exempt offering framework. The amendments represent important changes for private and public companies that rely on private offerings as part of their strategies to raise capital....

Multiple class-action lawsuits filed in courts across the country against Elanco Animal Health Inc. and Bayer LLC over the Seresto flea and tick collar will be federally consolidated into one lawsuit in Illinois. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) ordered coordinated discovery and pretrial proceedings to start in the Northern District of Illinois despite calls by defendants to...

Marc Lubaszka, the ultimate white-collar conman on the run: From a Hollywood Hills mansion to Venezuela's illegal gold mines and back Disabled veteran Steve Gern: “It’s been nearly ten years of desperation” Around 2012, tens of investors across the country experienced nearly $2 million in combined losses with unregistered gold broker Marc Lubaszka. The SEC, the FBI and other law enforcement...

Equity Investors will be able to outperform the imminent stock market crash Accredited Investors know that the best returns on investment are achieved by investing early in a companies growth cycle. 2020 will go down in history as one of the most volatile and erratic years on the stock market with historic highs and unheard-of lows. While the US and the...

The tsunami has all but ended in a defeat for many investors and companies. There is finally good news for equity investors. The JOBS Act 3.0 The jobs act 1.0 and 2.0 delivered a disruption to investing and helped propel small businesses into multimillion-dollar companies.  The great rush of Reg. A and Reg. D and  Equity Crowdfunding seems to have...

Wall Street has a new obsession: special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs). SPACs are an alternative to the traditional way businesses raise money known as initial public offerings (IPOs). Since January 1, 2021 SPACs have raised over $88 billion, making up 83 percent of public offerings this year and raising more money than they did in all of 2020. As investment banks and professional investors celebrate this booming...

Regulation D Explained: What Are Regulation D Offerings in Real Estate Crowdfunding? Real estate crowdfunding, or the practice of funding a real estate investing venture by raising a small amount of money from a large number of people, typically over the internet, has been gaining in popularity over recent years. To that end, investors who hope to use this method to get...

Reg CF is increasing from $1.07 million to $5 million. This change alone should see Regulation Crowdfunding investment exceed $1 billion in 2021 (up from around $250 million over the last 12 months). Founders will be able to “test the waters” (i.e. explore potential investor demand) before officially launching a Reg CF round and filing a Form C. Regulation Crowdfunding allows startup...