March 27, 2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission announced charges against Wedbush Securities Inc. for failing to supervise employee Timary Delorme after the broker-dealer ignored numerous red flags indicating that Delorme was involved in a long-running pump-and-dump scheme targeting retail investors. Delorme agreed to settle fraud charges stemming from […]
Frauds & Scandals
Rio Tinto, Former Top Executives Charged with Fraud
—Worldwide Mining Company Alleged to Have Inflated Asset Values March 27, 2018/US SEC On October 17, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged mining company Rio Tinto and two former top executives with fraud for inflating the value of coal assets acquired for $3.7 billion and sold a few years […]
SEC Charges Energy Storage Company, Former Executive in Fraudulent Scheme to Inflate Financial Results
March 27, 2018/US SEC The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a California-based energy storage and power delivery product manufacturer and one of its former sales executives in a fraudulent revenue recognition scheme designed to inflate the company’s reported financial results. According to the SEC’s order, Maxwell Technologies, Inc. prematurely […]
