Imagine that you are a borrower on a major commercial real estate project. Your project has plenty of equity but cash flow is tight. Despite the tough economy, you manage to hold on. As things get worse, the designated special servicer on your loan invites you to miss a payment so they can get involved […]
SEC Slams Ex LPL Broker for Elder Financial Abuse
A stockbroker who delivers medication to a terminal cancer patient in a snowstorm… sounds like a great guy, right? In most situations it would be wonderful. In this case, the man wearing the hero’s disguise was nothing more than a common thief and villain. Last week the SEC obtained a $1.8 million judgment against former […]
Morgan Stanley Loses $4.5mm Stockbroker Fraud Arbitration
Morgan Stanley & Co. suffered a $4.5 million arbitration loss before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) after a customer complained that the brokerage firm had committed fraud. The customer, Banamex, claimed Morgan Stanley improperly pledged the assets of a wealthy family. Banamex acted as the family’s trustee. The family’s trust claimed the trustee never […]
Alliance & Nikolai Battoo – “Figment of Criminal Imagination”
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged yet another player in the massive Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Nikolai Battoo. Marketed as PIWM, Maven Assurance or Maven Life, the Ponzi scheme is estimated to have raked in over $150 million dollars. Already the principals, Nikolai Battoo and his chief marketer Tracy Sunderlage, have been charged […]
Nikolai Battoo and Tracy Sunderlage – "Sons of Madoff"?
It’s Halloween weekend and kids throughout the country are dressed in costume. (Same for a fair amount of adults in college towns too.) 75 years ago, the public was terrified when the hit movie Son of Frankenstein was released in theaters. Today it takes more than a movie to scare most adults. For this Halloween […]
Is the End at Hand for Tracy Sunderlage & Nikolai Battoo?
We have closely followed the many legal cases surrounding Nikolai Battoo and Tracy Sunderlage. Together they, and entities controlled or involved with them, have cost investors hundreds of millions of dollars. Our clients alone have lost many millions. A sampling of the entities connected with the two men or engaged in similar activities include PIWM, […]
Is Bambi Holzer A Fraud? Some People Think So
Bambi Holzer – investment adviser to celebrities and prolific author of books on money and investing. In 2007, she published “Financial Bliss.” According to one review, the book is a valuable “guide that helps couples solve money problems and create a life plan.” Dozens of former clients have a different opinion; they think she almost […]
Hospice Owner Convicted In $14 Million Medicare Fraud
The owner of a Pennsylvania hospice care business, Matthew Kolodesh, was convicted of Medicare fraud. Jurors found he billed Medicare for over $14 million in claims for patients that were not eligible to receive Medicare benefits. In many cases, the services were billed but never provided. Prosecutors say that Kolodesh spent $9.6 million of hospice […]
Lawyer Indicted For Estate Fraud And Tax Evasion
An attorney in Bucks County, Pennsylvania has been indicted on charges that he stole almost $2 million from a deceased client’s estate. Prosecutors charged attorney Randolph Scott, 70, with mail fraud, aggravated identity theft, tax evasion and failure to file tax returns. If convicted on all the charges, he faces a minimum of 2 years […]
Donors Sue Over Abusive Tax Shelter
The University of Arizona Foundation and two of their largest donors, Karl and Stevie Eller, have filed suit against Swiss bank UBS for its role in an abusive tax shelter scheme. The Ellers’ previously donated $23 million to the University. The lawsuit claims that UBS was acting as the Ellers’ financial advisor and that they […]
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