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5 Jan 2024, 10:01 am by Silver Law Group
Financial Advisors who have engaged in misconduct or otherwise violated FINRA rules or regulations frequently surrender their license rather than cooperate in a FINRA investigation. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 2:25 am by Matthias Weller
After laying out a foundational theory for designing judicial cooperation in civil matters within a field of “trust” and “control” (“trust management”) in regard to foreign sovereign judicial acts, in particular foreign judgments, to be integrated (or not) into a state’s s own administration of justice, this theory was then applied to the “Hague Package” (Christophe Bernasconi) of instruments on judicial cooperation in… [read post]
SEC Charges Middlesex Mortgage Group and Masanotti with Running $5.9 Million Ponzi Scheme The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has alleged that unregistered investment adviser John A. Masanotti, Jr. (“Masanotti” of Darien, Connecticut and his company, Middlesex Mortgage Group LLC (“MMG”), with fraud in connection with investments that MMC induced from outside investors, totaling least $5.9 million, beginning in 2016. Many of the MMG investors allegedly liquidated securities they held in retirement accounts to invest in the fund. The SEC Complaint is accessible here. According to the SEC. MMC and Masanotti allegedly used investor money to make Ponzi-like payments to investors and also used some investor funds for Masanotti’s “extravagant personal expenses,” According to the SEC, Masanotti told investors that MMC would invest their money in foreign currencies, securities and initial public offerings, but in fact MMC appears to have made no investments on their behalf. After receiving their initial payments, Masanotti continued to deceive investors to perpetuate the investment scheme, including via payments that purported to be returns on capital invested, the SEC said. Over the course of the scheme, Masanotti allegedly used more than $3 million of Middlesex’s assets for his and his family’s personal benefit, according to the suit. The SEC accuses Masanotti of violating the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. A Ponzi scheme is a purported investment vehicle in which early investors in the scheme are paid funds from later investors, thus creating the illusion of legitimacy and solvency. Ponzi schemes are often doomed to failure once the perpetrator of the scheme can no longer pay out investors through newly raised money. Some warning signs that every investor should remain mindful of when vetting a potential investment and conducting due diligence include the promise of high returns with guarantees of little or no risk; overly consistent returns with little or no volatility in the in
14 Nov 2023, 4:30 pm by InvestorLawyers
Investors with questions about claims about non-conventional investments or concerns that they may have invested in a fraudulent scheme may contact Law Office of Christopher J. [read post]
1 Nov 2023, 5:42 am by Beatrice Yahia
   FBI Director Christopher Wray warned yesterday that Hamas’ actions could inspire terrorist attacks in the United States. [read post]
30 Oct 2023, 5:40 am by Seán Binder
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3 Oct 2023, 5:09 am by Joseph J. Lazzarotti
Recent comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray at Mandiant’s annual mWISE 2023 conference seek to encourage the private sector to reconsider, as reported in CIODive. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 9:01 pm by Haofei Liu
Nielson, Professor of Law at Brigham Young University Law School, Christopher J. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 5:48 pm by Seyfarth Shaw LLP
By: Christopher Kelleher, Rachel See, Christopher DeGroff, and Andrew Scroggins Seyfarth Synopsis: An essential read for any employer, the EEOC’s final Strategic Enforcement Plan (SEP), was released on September 21, 2023. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 7:20 am by Robin E. Kobayashi
These and other questions are addressed by Christopher Mahon, LexisNexis Insights Contributing Author, in “Workers’ Self-Reported COVID-19 Exposure and PPE Availability in Michigan During the First Year of Pandemic,” an article found in § 9 of this volume. [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 7:16 pm by Jacob Katz Cogan
Steinert & Christoph Dworschak, Political Imprisonment and Protest Mobilization: Evidence From the GDR Michael Freedman & Esteban F. [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 2:20 am by Seán Binder
GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTS – WEST AFRICA COUPS Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov met with the junta in Burkina Faso yesterday to discuss possible military cooperation. [read post]
30 Aug 2023, 3:52 pm by Matthias Weller
In our humble opinion, this global cooperation of legal scholars and practitioners has contributed to making more visible what has been referred to elsewhere as the “College of International Lawyers”. [read post]
21 Aug 2023, 2:28 am by Seán Binder
Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Eric Schmitt, and Julian E. [read post]
16 Aug 2023, 11:57 am by Eugene Volokh
[I had asserted the contrary, arguing that the state allowance of pseudonymity in trying to get removal from the list didn't justify pseudonymity in a federal court lawsuit seeking damages for such placement; but the court disagreed.] [read post]
15 Aug 2023, 2:16 am by Seán Binder
Prosecutors “reneging” on the deal should be bound by the terms of the agreement, attorney Christopher Clark said in court filings on Sunday. [read post]