The Securities and Exchange Commission has arrived at a global settlement with State Street Bank and Trust Company. According to the regulator, State Street misled custody clients, including mutual funds, about hidden markups that were added to foreign currency exchange trades. The firm will pay $382.4M, including $167M in penalties…
$64M Pension Fund Fraud Settlement Reached Against Dana Holding Corp. Executives Plaintiffs in the shareholder class action case brought against Michael Burns and Robert Richter have reached a $64M out-of-court settlement with the two ex-Dana Holding Corp. executives. The union pension funds include lead plaintiffs SEIU Pension Plans Master Trust,…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has issued a statement announcing that Patrick E. Churchville, the president and owner of ClearPath Wealth Management, will plead guilty to one count of tax fraud and numerous counts of wire fraud related to the running a $21M Ponzi scam. According to prosecutors, Churchville also used…
Martin Shkreli, the former chief executive of Retrophin Inc., has pleaded not guilty to a new charge of conspiracy. Shkreli was arrested last year for allegedly plotting to bilk the pharmaceutical company to cover up losses sustained by investors in his hedge funds. He was let go as CEO two…
The Securities and Exchange Commission says that Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MS) will pay a $1M penalty to resolve charges involving its purported failure to protect customer data. Some of this information was hacked and violators attempted to sell the data online. According to the regulator, the firm did…
SEC Stops Ponzi Scam Involving Pre-IPO Stocks and Middle Class Investors The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is charging Jaswant Gill and Javier Rios with fraud. The regulator claims that the two men and their investment firm, JSG Capital Investments, targeted middle-class investors through a Ponzi scam in which they…
SEC Files Fraud Charges Against Former State Street Executive The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is filing fraud charges against ex-State Street Corp. (STT) executive Ross McClellan. According to the regulator, McLellan was one of a number of people who purposely charged hidden markups on certain transactions to customers, making…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is charging John Galanis, his son Jason Galanis, and five other people with fraud involving a multimillion-dollar tribal bonds scam. The SEC claims that Jason ran the scheme to obtain a “source of discretionary liquidity.” He and his father allegedly persuaded a Native American…
Martin Shkreli, the founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG, has asked a judge to wait before scheduling his criminal trial on charges of securities fraud. Shkreli, 33, says he may be subject to more charges. He is accused of bilking investors of Retrophin Inc., which is a drug company that he…
Ex-NOVA Bank CEO and president Brian Hartline and Barry Bekkedam, the bank’s former chairman, have been convicted of defrauding the government when trying to get over $13M in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds. By 2008, bad loans and investments had placed the bank at risk of failure. To try…