By Robert H. Rex, Esq.
On January 31, 2014, Eddie Lacy Stivers of Hood County, Texas, was sentenced to 85 years in state prison for fraud in connection with the sale of stock and promissory notes to investors. Indicted in 2012, Stivers continued to sell fraudulent investments through a company called Life Style Protectors and Advisors LLC. His previous companies were Patriot Insurance and Patriot Holding. One elderly investor invested and lost more than $117,000.
In Collin County Texas, William Paul Hudson of Plano was convicted of theft in an oil & gas scam and was sentenced to 10 years and ordered to pay restitution. Posing as an oil well driller, Hudson stole over $600,000 from 50 investors in various purported oil and gas projects. The Gulf Coast Project was supposed to re-enter existing wells in Jackson, Gonzales and Jim Wells counties. Hudson invested only a small fraction of the investor funds in actual drilling programs and spent the rest on personal expenses. Hudson had a record of regulatory sanctions. He was suspended and fined th the Texas State Securities Board for selling unregistered securities in 2003 and in 2006 the Alabama Securities Commissioner entered a Cease and Desist for the same violation. Hudson and his wife had filed for bankruptcy three times from 1998 to 2007. He did not disclose any of these pertinent prior issues to investors.
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