Frauds & Scandals

SEC Charges Investment Adviser, Affiliated Broker-Dealer and Their President for False and Misleading Statements and Omissions

October 1, 2021/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Laguna Niguel, California-based TCFG Investment Advisors, LLC (TCFG), TCFG’s affiliated broker-dealer TCFG Wealth Management, LLC (TCFG Wealth), and Richard James Roberts – their CEO, president, and managing member – with making materially false and misleading statements and omissions related to […]

SEC Charges Rogue Trader Who Bankrupted His Firm

September 30, 2021/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Keith A. Wakefield, a former managing director and head of fixed income trading at IFS Securities, Inc., an Atlanta-based broker-dealer, with causing millions of dollars of losses through unauthorized trading in fixed income securities, and with fraudulently obtaining approximately […]

SEC Charges Former Executives of Registered Investment Adviser with Fraud

September 30, 2021/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Robert D. Press, the former CEO of the advisory firm TCA Fund Management Group Corp., and Donna M. Silverman, TCA’s former chief portfolio manager, for their roles in the firm’s scheme to artificially inflate the net asset values and […]