Selected Press Releases
SEC Announces Charges from Investigation of Secondary Market Trading of Private Company Shares
03/14/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two managers of private investment funds established solely to acquire the shares of Facebook and other Silicon Valley firms with misleading investors and pocketing undisclosed fees and commissions. The SEC alleges that the fund managers collectively raised more than $70 million from investors.Read moreSEC Charges Five With Insider Trading on Confidential Merger Negotiations Between Philadelphia Company and Japanese Firm
03/13/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two financial advisors and three others in their circle of family and friends with insider trading for more than $1.8 million in illicit profits based on confidential information about a Philadelphia-based insurance holding company’s merger negotiations with a Japanese firm.Read moreSEC Charges Three Mortgage Executives With Fraudulent Accounting Maneuvers in Midst of Financial Crisis
03/13/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged the senior-most executives at formerly one of the nation’s largest mortgage companies with hiding the company’s deteriorating financial condition at the onset of the financial crisis. The plan backfired and the company lost 90 percent of its value in two weeks.Read moreSEC Charges Former Executive at Coca-Cola Bottling Company with Insider Trading
03/08/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former executive at a Coca-Cola bottling company with insider trading based on confidential information he learned on the job about potential upcoming business with The Coca-Cola Company.Read moreSEC Obtains Asset Freeze Against Long Island Investment Adviser Charged with Defrauding Investors
03/06/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced it has charged a New York-based investment adviser with defrauding investors in five offshore funds and using some of their money to buy himself a multi-million dollar beach resort property on Long Island.Read more