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Jonah Engler, Brett Ian Friedberg, Jonathon Michael Sheklow, Joshua William Turney, Hector Perez (also known as Bruce Johnson), and Joshua Scott Schaffer fraudulently sold a total of nearly $3 million worth of Senior Secured Zero Coupon Notes issued by Metals, Milling and Mining LLC in a private placement offering to 59 customers, according to a… Read more »
Neal V. Goyal orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that raised more than $11.4 million from at least 35 investors, according to a complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The Peiffer Wolf securities practice attorneys Jason Kane and Joe Peiffer are investigating the matter and encourage investors who were referred to Goyal to call… Read more »
Following the SEC lawsuit against KGTA Petroleum and its alleged founders, Thomas Abraham (Abdallah) and Kenneth Grant, and promoters Jeffrey Gainer and Jerry Cicolani, Cleveland investor protection lawyers from the law firms of Peiffer Wolf and Hermann Cahn and Schneider have joined forces to seek compensation for KGTA investors. Cleveland attorneys Jason Kane of the… Read more »
Sean Meadows, a Minneapolis financial planner, is under investigation for possibly orchestrating a Ponzi scheme, according to media reports citing search warrants issued by Minnesota federal court. The Peiffer Wolf securities practice attorneys Jason Kane and Joe Peiffer are investigating the matter. The United States federal court in Minnesota issued search warrants and those warrants… Read more »
Gaeton “Guy” S. Della Penna is accused of operating a Ponzi scheme that raised over $3.8 million from investors from 2008 to 2013. Della Penna used investors’ funds to make mortgage payments on his 10,000-square-foot home and to make payments to his girlfriend who lived with him in the home, according to a complaint filed… Read more »
Robert E. Lee, Jr., a broker and financial advisor formerly associated with Rockwell Global Capital, LLC, defrauded a number of investors via a Ponzi scheme, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. Lee, who lives in Oxford, Connecticut, defrauded individuals by claiming that he was investing their money in a number of different… Read more »
Eliyahu Weinstein, a convicted Ponzi schemer, is accused of orchestrating another scheme to defraud victims regarding purported investments in Facebook stock and Florida real estate, according to an indictment filed in federal court. Weinstein and his fellow conspirators offered a pair of investors the opportunity to purchase large blocks of Facebook shares prior to the… Read more »
Dunya Predovan, of Manahawkin, New Jersey, was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to repay investors $750,350 in restitution after she pled guilty to a charge of theft by deception. Predovan orchestrated a Ponzi scheme and gained the attention of investors by informing them that she worked for George Soros in the 1980s… Read more »
Joseph Hennessy fraudulently obtained approximately $2.9 million from at least 10 investors and misused the funds in a Ponzi-type scheme, according to an indictment filed in federal court. Hennessy and the company he co-owned, Resource Planning Group, Inc., formed and operated the Midwest Opportunity Fund, a private equity fund that held itself out as an… Read more »
Henry Thomas Hammond was indicted by a federal grand jury as a result of a $6.2 million series of investment fraud schemes. Hammond owned, operated, or was involved in several businesses, including Longhorn Construction, Inc., Longhorn Properties, LLC, Longhorn Development Group, Inc., Longhorn Construction, North American Investment Group, Inc., and others. Hammond engaged in a… Read more »