Frauds & Scandals

SEC Charges New York Man with Insider Trading

5/4/2018/US SEC On April 5, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged a New York resident with tipping his brother and father with material nonpublic information about an upcoming corporate acquisition. The SEC’s complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, alleges that, […]

SEC Charges Massachusetts Man in Multi-Year Trading Scheme

5/4/2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a Lexington, Massachusetts resident for making an extraordinarily profitable series of unlawful trades in the securities of Massachusetts-based VistaPrint, N.V. According to the SEC’s complaint, Charlie Jinan Chen used nonpublic information obtained directly or indirectly from a VistaPrint insider to place […]

Defendant in SEC Cases Involving Ticket Resale Investment Schemes Sentenced to More than Six Years’ Imprisonment in Parallel Criminal Case

5/4/2018/US SEC Joseph Meli has been sentenced by a federal court in Manhattan to more than six years in prison in connection with a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme involving purported resales of tickets to popular concerts and Broadway shows. The criminal case arises from the same conduct alleged in two […]