Tweet A mysterious man from Asia and the most famous round-tripping case In Part 1 of “Understanding round-tripping in the capital markets” (here), we discussed round-tripping and looked at a rare SEC enforcement action involving round-tripping by executives of a microcap public company. In this Part 2, we look at the most famous round-tripping case […]
Tweet The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed another enforcement action related to the Frederick Sharp case, this one involving the operation of a boiler room in Colombia used to solicit investments from investors for little issuers. The SEC alleges that the defendants ran a call centre boiler room in the cocaine capital of […]
Tweet Two men in the U.K. were convicted this week of money laundering and fraud in one of the first green collar crime cases, and certainly one of the first cases involving Canada. The two men, David John Downes and Ian David Macdonald, sold shares in entities which claimed to own carbon credits, raising upwards […]
Tweet New York lawyer, Matthew Kluger, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in New Jersey to 12 years in prison for insider trading. His sentence is the longest term ever imposed for that crime in the U.S. Kruger stole undisclosed transactional information on approximately 30 deals when he was a corporate lawyer with several U.S. […]
Tweet Florida businessman Nevin Shapiro pleaded guilty to running a US$880 million Ponzi scheme. Shapiro was the founder and president of Capitol Investments USA, Inc. (Capitol), a grocery distribution business. He surrendered to the FBI and was arraigned in federal court in New Jersey in April of this year. He was charged with securities fraud […]