July 29, 2025
A Pennsylvania-based community bank has urged a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action accusing it of enabling a $155 million Ponzi scheme carried out by a Pennsylvania dentist and a Texas attorney, arguing that the case attempts to unconstitutionally import Texas securities law into the Keystone State.
May 08, 2023
A Texas attorney who is a former small town mayor and a Pennsylvania dentist have been accused by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of raising $155 million from would-be investors using a slew of misrepresentations about a purported oil-and-gas industry technology company they ran, including a fake endorsement from oil giant ExxonMobil.