February 27, 2015 The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges against 3 company officers and 12 promoters who were operating an international pyramid scheme using Portuguese companies operating…
read moreFebruary 20, 2015-Sherman, Texas The FBI , Dallas Division, announced that Thomas W. Lucas, Jr. , 35, of Plano, Texas, has been found guilty of federal wire fraud violations as…
read moreFebruary 18, 2015-Orlando, Florida According to the Tampa Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Dante S. Giovannetti, age 50, has been indicted and charged with five counts of…
read moreFebruary 18, 2015- Lincoln, Nebraska The JournalStar.com reports that Scott and Robin Usher of Lincoln have admitted duping investors out of about $750,000 in a scheme involving phony inventions and…
read moreFebruary 13, 2015-West Palm Beach, Florida The InsuranceNewsNet.com reports that former Lake Worth, FL, financial planner Michael Hardman was convicted of first and second degree grand theft for bilking investors…
read moreFebruary 13, 2015- Sherman, Texas The Dallas Morning News reports that a jury took less than an hour to return a verdict of guilty on all counts in the fraud…
read moreFebruary 15, 2015- Long Island, New York Mark Malik (aka Moazzam Ifzal Malik) age 33, of Lahore Pakistan, was indicted and charged with stealing over $250,000 from five investors in…
read moreUPDATE January 2016–Bliss to serve a year and a day in federal prison for trying to corruptly influence and obstruct the administration of justice in the SEC case. See Department…
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