La economía, a examen. ¿A las puertas de una nueva recesión?
Los Ángeles (CA) – La pandemia más letal desde la mal llamada gripe española de 1918, no solo ha dejado una estela de muertes a lo largo y ancho del planeta. También ha puesto de manifiesto la vulnerabilidad de los sistemas sociales, ha desafiado la capacidad de respuesta del aparato sanitario ante una emergencia de gran magnitud y ha...
UBS to Pay $25 Million to Settle Fraud Charges
Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that UBS Financial Services Inc. has agreed to pay approximately $25 million to settle fraud charges relating to a complex investment strategy referred to as YES, or Yield Enhancement Strategy.
According to the SEC’s order, UBS marketed and sold YES to approximately 600 investors through its platform of domestic financial...
SEC Adopts Rules to Require Electronic Filing for Investment Advisers and Institutional Investment Managers
Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted amendments to require certain documents filed by investment advisers, institutional investment managers, and certain other entities to be filed or submitted electronically. The amendments also make technical amendments to modernize Form 13F and enhance the information provided. The amendments are intended to promote efficiency, transparency, and operational resiliency by...
Former employee at Penn Interactive Ventures charged with insider trading
Software Engineer Traded, Tipped Friend of Company’s Acquisition Plans
Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced insider trading charges against David Roda, a former software engineer at Penn National Gaming’s subsidiary Penn Interactive Ventures, in connection with the parent company’s $2 billion acquisition of Toronto-based Score Media and Gaming, Inc.
The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal district court...
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...
SCWorx Corp. and former CEO misled investors about COVID-19 test kits
Washington D.C. — The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged New York-based SCWorx Corp. and its former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, Marc S. Schessel, with making false and misleading statements about SCWorx’s plans to distribute COVID-19 rapid test kits in April 2020. SCWorx has agreed to settle the SEC’s charges and will pay a $125,000...
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....