Frauds & Scandals

UK’s FCA Secures Confiscation Orders Totalling £1.69m Against Convicted Insider Dealers

Culled—Proshare 11/5/2018/ FCA Today, His Honour Judge Pegden QC sitting at Southwark Crown Court made confiscation orders in the sum of £1,074,236 against Martyn Dodgson and £624,521 against Andrew Hind. The orders must be paid within 3 months or Mr Dodgson will face a further 7 and a half years […]

SEC Files Settled Charges Against Company and Founder For Defrauding Investors in Event Center Business

11/5/2018/US SEC On May 10, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah against The Falls Event Center, LLC (The Falls), a Utah limited liability company, and its CEO Steven L. Down of West Jordan, Utah (Down) for making […]

Microcap Company President Charged With Boiler Room Fraud Agrees to Lifetime Bars

9/5/2018/US SEC A former microcap company president charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with defrauding over 700 investors nationwide who were pressured to invest has agreed to lifetime officer-and-director and penny stock bars. The SEC’s complaint alleges that from 2009 until 2015, Keith Houlihan of Boca Raton, Florida, while […]