April 04, 2018
The trial of the former CEO of financial services firm OmniView Capital Advisors LLC and a Las Vegas attorney began in Brooklyn on Wednesday, with jurors hearing of a multi-pronged $300 million scheme to inflate the value of worthless companies via fraudulent trading and bogus press releases.
March 22, 2018
A former broker accused of various pump-and-dump schemes collectively worth $300 million admitted to manipulating stock prices and bilking unwitting investors on Thursday, days before he was due to stand trial alongside the ex-husband of a star of the TV show "The Sopranos."
January 19, 2018
A Brooklyn federal judge has declined to reconsider his disqualification of a Thompson Hine LLP attorney from representing a broker charged with aiding an $86 million pump-and-dump scheme, ruling in an order entered Thursday that there's no alternative but for the broker to find new counsel.
January 08, 2018
A Thompson & Hine LLP attorney on Friday asked a Brooklyn federal judge to reconsider her disqualification from representing a broker charged with aiding an $86 million pump-and-dump scheme, saying there is no "substantial relationship" between her prior limited representation of a codefendant and the instant case.
October 18, 2017
Two men accused of participating in an $86 million pump-and-dump scheme involving the stock of medical billing firm CodeSmart Holdings Inc. each pled guilty to a securities-fraud conspiracy charge in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday.
June 28, 2016
A broker copped to manipulating the share price of Cubed Inc. before a Brooklyn federal judge Monday, admitting he used an attorney escrow account to make trades that created a bogus $200 million market capitalization for the essentially worthless issue, in a stock pump-and-dump bust that snared 10 defendants in total.
November 04, 2015
Federal prosecutors have arrested two investment brokers and a lawyer in connection with an alleged $300 million scam to sell "worthless" stock to the elderly, they said on Wednesday.
July 23, 2014
Two executives of a New York investment firm, one of whom is the ex-husband of an actress from “The Sopranos,” pled not guilty Wednesday to federal charges they helped run a $300 million stock manipulation scheme.