Frauds & Scandals

SEC Files 13 Charges Against Binance Entities and Founder Changpeng Zhao

Charges include operating unregistered exchanges, broker-dealers, and clearing agencies; misrepresenting trading controls and oversight on the Binance.US platform; and the unregistered offer and sale of securities. June 5, 2023/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Binance Holdings Ltd. (“Binance”), which operates the largest crypto asset trading platform in […]

SEC Charges Massachusetts-Based Firm and Its Co-Owners with Acting as Unregistered Securities Dealers

June 1, 2023/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) today announced charges against Auctus Fund Management, LLC (“Auctus Management”) and its co-owners Alfred Sollami of Brookline, Massachusetts and Louis Posner of Mansfield, Massachusetts, for failing to register as securities dealers with the SEC. Auctus Management, Sollami, and Posner […]

SEC Charges Self-Proclaimed ‘Queen of Mobile Homes’ and Three Salespeople with Fraud in Mobile Home Investment Scheme

May 31, 2023/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission filed today a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas charging Outstanding Real Estate Solutions, Inc. (ORES), its Chief Executive Officer and founder Chimene Van Gundy, and salespeople Michael Trofimoff, Santos Kidd, and Maria Tosta for […]