April 15, 2021/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced partially settled charges against Martin Silver of Long Branch, New Jersey, in connection with a fraudulent scheme to overvalue assets held in a hedge fund offered by his investment advisory firm, International Investment Group (IIG). The SEC previously charged […]

April 15, 2021/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an award of over $50 million to joint whistleblowers whose information alerted SEC staff to violations that involved highly complex transactions and would have been difficult to detect without their information.  The joint whistleblowers provided exemplary assistance to the […]

April 14, 2021/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged seven individuals, including criminal recidivist Richard Dale Sterritt, Jr., with defrauding investors through a multimillion dollar oil-and-gas offering fraud and related market manipulation scheme. The SEC’s complaint alleges that, between March 2018 and at least November 2020, Sterritt – who […]