Tez Romero
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$4.5M raised on trust alone: SEC alleges affinity fraud in merchant lending (opens the original)
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The SEC says an Illinois man with no industry experience exploited the trust of his own religious community to run a $4.5 million investment operation built on false track records, undisclosed fees, and misleading performance reports. In a complaint filed September 28 in the Northern District of Illinois, the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges the founder and sole controller of two related merchant cash advance entities raised funds from at least 23 investors between November 2021 and Ja
Never a losing day: CFTC alleges $950 million forex Ponzi scheme (opens the original)
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The CFTC says a Panama-based forex pool collected over $950 million - and put less than one percent of it toward actual trading. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed a complaint on September 24 alleging that Cash FX Group S.A. and four co-defendants operated what the agency calls a "fraudulent, multilevel marketing Ponzi scheme" that collected more than $950 million from over 400,000 accounts worldwide between June 2019 and December 2023. Cash FX, incorporated in Panama in 2018, told p
Workers allege Principal Financial ran $4.59B 401(k) as a fee machine (opens the original)
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A class action filed September 22 in Chicago federal court alleges that Principal Financial Group turned its own employees' retirement plan into a revenue stream for the company. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (Case No. 1:26-cv-11597), targets Principal Financial Group, Inc., its subsidiary Principal Life Insurance Company, and two internal oversight bodies - the Benefit Plans Investment Committee and the Benefit Plans Administration Committee.
Investor says pre-IPO fund hid markups on SpaceX, Stripe stakes (opens the original)
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A California investor says a pre-IPO fund charged him hidden markups on stakes in SpaceX and Stripe, then locked him out of his account. The suit landed September 1 in federal court in New Jersey, and it turns on a question private-market investors rarely get to test: did the money buy what the paperwork said it did? According to the complaint, the investor moved about $3.3 million into a pre-IPO fund between 2020 and 2022, spread across more than twenty companies. The list reads like a who's wh
ADMA stockholder suit alleges channel-stuffing and a hidden distributor deal (opens the original)
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A stockholder is suing ADMA Biologics' leaders, alleging they inflated the drugmaker's revenue - months after a short-seller called its growth “a fiction.” The lawsuit, filed September 2 in federal court in New Jersey, is a derivative action - a case a shareholder brings on the company's behalf to recover money for the company itself. The defendants are ADMA's chief executive, its vice chairman, its former finance chief and five board directors. For anyone who follows small-cap biopharma, it is
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