Articles Posted in Ponzi Schemes

Silver Law Group is investigating PNC Bank regarding its involvement with The Income Store, a company The SEC accuses of operating a “Ponzi-like scheme”, which allegedly promised investors high rates of return from revenue-generating websites. SEC Files Emergency Enforcement Action Against The Income Store In January, 2020, The Securities and…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is accusing Florida-based real estate firm EquiAlt LLC, and its owner and managing director, with running a Ponzi scheme that raised over $170 million from 1,100 investors and misappropriated millions of dollars to pay for personal luxury items including sports cars and private jet…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it obtained a temporary restraining order and filed an emergency enforcement action against Kenneth D. Courtright III and his company, Todays Growth Consultant Inc. The actions by the SEC are related to an alleged “Ponzi-like scheme” that raised more than $75 million…

James Thomas Booth Of LPL Financial Barred From Securities Industry For Operating Ponzi Scheme James Thomas Booth (CRD# 1906145), the founder of Booth Financial Associates and a registered representative with LPL Financial LLC in Norwalk, Connecticut has been permanently barred by the both the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and…

Roger Owens (CRD# 2359204), a broker previously employed by Cetera Advisors LLC in Elkton, Maryland, has been suspended by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) from acting as a broker. Owens worked for Cetera for the past decade. Owens began in the industry in 1994. His problems began when he…

Perry Santillo, an investment manager based in Rochester, New York, has pleaded guilty to participating in a $115 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded at least a thousand investors by convincing them to invest in businesses that had little or no operations. He and his associate Christopher Parris solicited investments in…

Over the past few years, GPB Capital missed key Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filing deadlines, announced that some of its financial statements can no longer be relied upon, was raided by the FBI and New York City Business Integrity Commission, had one of its insiders criminally indicted, and is…

A class-action complaint was filed in a Texas federal court on October 25, 2019 against GPB Capital and its principals and affiliates as well as nearly 80 broker-dealers. The basis of the lawsuit is “improper conduct in selling securities . . . at the direction of GPB Capital.” Specifically, the…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has taken emergency action to stop an alleged $6 million Ponzi scheme that took money from at least 55 people, many of whom are seniors. The SEC obtained a temporary asset freeze and restraining order against Neil Burkholz of Boca Raton,…

GPB Capital has been accused of being a Ponzi scheme, which is a type of fraud where new investor money is used to pay off old investors. Investors in a Ponzi scheme believe they are getting a return from the business they invested in, but they’re really getting another victim’s…