The exposé Hadari Oshri and her attorney tried to stop wins LA Press Club award
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 filed an anti-SLAPP...
The US announces increased international cooperation to target Russian assets
Australia, Canada, the European Commission, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, the UK, and U.S., Agree to Increased Cooperation to Target Russian Assets
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen today met virtually with representatives from Australia, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the European Commission, to launch the Russian Elites, Proxies, and Oligarchs (REPO)...
Check out SEC’s updated list of firms using inaccurate information to solicit investors
Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it updated its list of unregistered entities that use misleading information to solicit primarily non-U.S. investors, adding 58 soliciting entities, 11 impersonators of genuine firms, and one bogus regulator.
The SEC’s list of soliciting entities that have been the subject of investor complaints, known as the Public Alert: Unregistered...
Panama Intermediaries Each Sentenced to 36 Months in Prison for International Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme
Two brothers, each a dual-citizen of Panama and Italy, were each sentenced to 36 months in prison for laundering $28 million in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving Odebrecht S.A. (Odebrecht), a Brazil-based global construction conglomerate. The defendants were also ordered to forfeit more than $18.8 million, pay a $250,000 fine and serve two years’ supervised release.
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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...
New Jersey Real Estate Development Firm and Four Executives Charged With $600 Million Ponzi-like Fraud
Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged New Jersey-based National Realty Investment Advisors LLC (NRIA) and four of its former executives with running a Ponzi-like scheme that raised approximately $600 million from about 2,000 investors.
The SEC’s complaint alleges that beginning in 2018, NRIA and its executives raised funds by promising investors their money would be used...