Synchronoss Technologies and senior employees charged with accounting-related misconduct

SEC Charges New Jersey Software Company and Senior Employees with Accounting-Related Misconduct Synchronoss Technologies to Pay $12.5 Million to Settle Charges, Former CEO to Reimburse Company Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Bridgewater, NJ-based Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. and seven senior employees, including the former CFO, in connection with their roles related to long-running accounting improprieties that ran...

Nominan la serie de investigación de Aitana Vargas sobre el presunto entramado fraudulento de Hadari Oshri

Nominan la serie de investigación de Aitana Vargas que destapa el presunto entramado fraudulento de Hadari Oshri Los Ángeles (CA) – En junio de 2021, la empresaria israelí Hadari Oshri pidió una orden de alejamiento contra la corresponsal española Aitana Vargas. Su objetivo era frenar en seco e impedir cualquier cobertura mediática de la periodista, cuya serie de investigación distribuida...

SEC Proposes Rule Changes to Prevent Misleading or Deceptive Fund Names

Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission this week proposed amendments to enhance and modernize the Investment Company Act “Names Rule” to address changes in the fund industry and compliance practices that have developed in the approximately 20 years since the rule was adopted. A fund’s name is an important marketing tool and can have a significant impact...

Aitana Vargas’s exposé on Hadari Oshri nominated for journalism award

Oshri tried to stop the release of Vargas's series exposing her alleged participation in a $370M PPE scheme In June 2021, Investor News reporter Aitana Vargas was served with court papers to stop the release of her months-long investigative series exposing entrepreneur Hadari Oshri's participation in an alleged multimillion-dollar PPE scam with conman Marc Lubaszka. In September 2021, Oshri's meritless legal...

Allianz Global Investors Agrees to Pay More Than $1 Billion to Resolve SEC Charges

SEC Charges Allianz Global Investors and Three Former Senior Portfolio Managers with Multibillion Dollar Securities Fraud Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week charged Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI US) and three former senior portfolio managers with a massive fraudulent scheme that concealed the immense downside risks of a complex options trading strategy they called...

SEC Obtains Emergency Relief to Halt Pre-IPO Stock Fraud Scheme by Unregistered Broker-Dealer

Defendants, including persons barred from the brokerage industry, allegedly sold shares they didn’t own, and pocketed more than $75 million Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this week that it obtained asset freezes and other emergency relief against StraightPath Venture Partners LLC, StraightPath Management LLC, Brian K. Martinsen, Michael A. Castillero, Francine A. Lanaia, and Eric D....

SEC Extends Comment Period for Proposed Rules on Climate-Related Disclosures, Reopens Comment Periods for Proposed Rules Regarding Private Fund Advisers and Regulation ATS

Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission this week announced that it has extended the public comment period on the proposed rulemaking to enhance and standardize climate-related disclosures for investors until June 17, 2022. The SEC also announced that it will reopen the comment periods on the proposed rulemaking to enhance private fund investor protection and on the...

Woman Convicted of Laundering Over $750,000 from Health Care Fraud Scheme

A federal jury convicted a Florida woman Friday for laundering approximately $786,000 in money stolen from Medicare, Medicaid, and private health insurers as part of a sprawling health care fraud scheme in Miami. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Jesmina Ramirez, 50, of Miami Gardens, laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraud proceeds by cashing checks...

Founders of cryptomining scheme accused of using investments to fund lavish lifestyle

SEC Halts Fraudulent Cryptomining and Trading Scheme Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission this week announced fraud charges against MCC International Corp. (MCC), which does business as Mining Capital Coin Corp., its founders Luiz Carlos Capuci, Jr. (aka Junior Caputti or Capuci) and Emerson Souza Pires (Pires), and two other entities controlled by Capuci, CPTLCoin Corp. (CPTLCoin) and...

SEC Charges Archegos and its Founder with Massive Market Manipulation Scheme

Multiple Archegos Executives Charged with Misleading Counterparties Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Sung Kook (Bill) Hwang, the owner of family office Archegos Capital Management, LP (Archegos), with orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that resulted in billions of dollars in losses. The SEC also charged Archegos’s Chief Financial Officer, Patrick Halligan; head trader, William Tomita; and Chief...