June 25, 2018
The legal fallout from a pump-and-dump scheme centered on a struggling sports-ticket broker came to a close in Massachusetts on Monday with a final judgment against the California attorney convicted of putting the plan to paper.
June 14, 2018
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday asked a federal judge in Massachusetts to ban a California attorney from dabbling in penny stocks or leading a public company after a jury convicted him of securities fraud in 2016 and he lost the parallel civil case last month.
May 25, 2018
A Massachusetts federal judge said Friday that he granted the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission summary judgment against an attorney convicted in a $3 million pump-and-dump scheme involving publicly traded shares of a now-shuttered sports ticket broker, rejecting the attorney's claim that the criminal trial was unfair.
October 05, 2016
A Massachusetts federal judge has approved a $2.8 million settlement by two men seeking to quell U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims that they conspired with a California lawyer to obtain free stock in a struggling sports ticket broker and sell it to investors.
May 17, 2016
A California securities lawyer was convicted in Massachusetts federal court Monday for his part in a $3 million pump-and-dump scheme that allowed his co-conspirators to obtain free stock in a struggling sports ticket broker and sell it to unwitting investors.
December 09, 2014
A California attorney who allegedly facilitated a $3 million pump-and-dump scheme that duped investors into buying the stock of a struggling sports ticket broker has been indicted in Massachusetts federal court, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday.