Frauds & Scandals

APO Group reports non-payment by cryptocurrency manufacturing company Watts Miners Inc.

October 11, 2018/APO Group APO Group (https://www.APO-opa.com/) hereby notifies the public of the multiple reports of potentially fraudulent activities of the cryptocurrency manufacturing company known as Watts Miners Inc. (WMI) (www.WMiners.com), which has come to its knowledge. This report also comes on the heels of WMI’s willful default of the […]

SEC Stops Fraudulent ICO that Falsely Claimed SEC Approval

October 11, 2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has obtained an emergency court order halting a planned initial coin offering (ICO), which backers falsely claimed was approved by the SEC. The order also halts ongoing pre-ICO sales by the company, Blockvest LLC and its founder, Reginald […]

SEC Obtains Preliminary Injunction in Alleged $345 Million Fraud

October 11, 2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that on October 4, 2018, United State District Judge Richard Bennett entered a preliminary injunction against defendants Kevin B. Merrill, Jay B. Ledford, Cameron Jezierski, and several entities they control in connection with the SEC’s charges that they operated a […]