4/5/2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two York, Pennsylvania residents with insider trading on confidential information about the impending merger of two potato chip manufacturers. The SEC alleges that David A. Zimliki learned from a close personal friend that potato chip manufacturer Golden Enterprises Inc. was going […]
Frauds & Scandals
Broker Charged With Defrauding Investors by SEC Sentenced to More Than Five Years in Prison in Parallel Criminal Case
4/5/2018/US SEC A registered representative in Pennsylvania whom the Securities and Exchange Commission charged with operating a long-running offering and investment advisory fraud has been sentenced in a parallel criminal case to 63 months imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, and ordered to pay $886,214.37 in restitution. According […]
SEC Obtains Preliminary Injunction Continuing Freeze of $27 Million in Stock Sales of Purported Cryptocurrency Company Longfin
May 3, 2018/US SEC On May 1, 2018, a federal district court in Manhattan granted the Securities and Exchange Commission’s motion for a preliminary injunction, extending until the conclusion of the case the emergency order previously entered by the court freezing more than $27 million in trading proceeds from allegedly […]
