Real estate investor, Louis Glickman shared, “The best investment on Earth is earth.” The long run-up in prices in the Lone Star state brought real estate investors from around the globe to follow Glickman’s advice from 2017 to 2019. Some investors did great, some okay and then there were 100 investors who hooked up with
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Cryptocurrency—Good Investment or a Fish Tale that Stinks?
Cryptocurrency – A Good Financial Investment?
Meet the Barksdale’s—the All-American family with an international flair who try to strike it rich in their 40’s. U.S. citizen, sister Tina (JonAtina Barksdale), lived in Hong Kong, while brother John Barksdale called Thailand home. Their story combines the elements of a good Texas-sized fish tale with the thrill…
Real Estate—Investment Diversification or Ponzi Scheme?
Real Estate Investment Portfolios
Who didn’t want to diversify their investment portfolio and take advantage of the ongoing soaring values of real estate in 2019? Demand for assets other than stocks has been on the rise for several years. Oil and gas investments are always an option, as is cryptocurrency.
But real estate was also…
$7 Million Texas Oil & Gas Ponzi Scheme-Emilio (Mike) Barrera
Never graduated high school. Pled no contest to a second-degree felony, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Never had a supervisory role. No significant oil and gas experience, other than sales. Sound like someone you’d find living paycheck to paycheck, right? Or, maybe this is a person who pulled himself up by his bootstraps and…
Investment Fraud: $5.8 Million Stolen from Investment Account with Large Financial Investment Company
SEC v. German Nino
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-8
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-8.pdf
Do you feel safe with the financial investments you execute through large brokerage houses or financial advisors? Well, maybe you are, but maybe you aren’t. Most of the time when we see an SEC complaint against an individual registered agent, the name of the company and the individual worked…
Cryptocurrency – Good Opportunity or Investment Scam?
Retail investors lost $3.6 million from two cryptocurrency fraudulent schemes purportedly perpetrated by Ryan Ginster of California. From 2018 to 2021, Ginster sold unregistered securities offerings on two online platforms, www.MyMicroProfits.com and https://socialprofimatic.com. SEC Press Release.
Ginster’s companies were allegedly running high yield investment programs (HYIP). An HYIP is typically an unregistered…
Investment Fraud at Large Financial Institutions
Investment Fraud at Large Financial Institutions
How many times have you heard someone setting the goal to become a millionaire by the time they reach 30? Kenneth A. Walsh from River Edge, New Jersey succeeded. Now 31 years of age, Walsh launched his investment advisor and broker career working for a large, registered financial institution…
Investment Fraud—When $1 Billion is really $300 Million
HeadSpin’s investors must have been dizzy when the company’s value was decreased from $1.1 billion to $300 million with just a few keystrokes. Recently, Manish Lachwani, HeadSpin’s CEO, was charged with investment fraud. He tricked investors out of $80 million from 2018 to 2020. When Lachwani’s investment scheme was discovered, the board of directors forced…
Prestige Equity – Tips to Spot a Fraudulent Investment Scheme
Have you heard about the Dallas-based company selling limited partnership interests in an investment that returns 12%/annually, paid twice a year? The company claims to have 10,000 investors who have invested $250 million and earned $30 million interest. Sounds great. Right? Not so fast!
Prestige Equity is yet another investment scam, like thousands before it.…
Investment Fraud Drama – Market Manipulation, Ponzi Scheme & Love Interests
New investment fraud cases arise weekly in the form of oil and gas investments, real estate scams, Ponzi schemes, or even an occasional pump and dump case. But when the SEC sues seven defendants and four relief defendants in one case, you just know someone has put a lot of effort into stealing investors’ money.…