Trick Play: Memorabilia company peddled Patriots, Seahawks gear with forged...
Just days after the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots claimed their spots in Super Bowl XLIX, a memorabilia company called The Highland Mint contacted customers with a tantalizing list of...
View ArticleSEC expands fraud case to include Lenco Mobile, subject of a prior...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has quietly expanded its fraud case against financier Izak Zirk De Maison, adding seven more people as codefendants and identifying five more stocks he used in...
View ArticleBeyond public view, a recidivist fraudster nears a reckoning day
The fraud and conspiracy case against recidivist fraudster Regis L. Possino and 10 others charged in connection with a multimillion-dollar “pump-and-dump” scheme appears to be nearing an end — in...
View ArticlePretenders and Ghosts: Stealth promotion network exploits financial sites to...
By Chris Carey Kevin O’Connor, Jim McNair and Russell Carrollo contributed to this report Meet George Ronan. Again and again and again. The George Ronan who talked up a succession of small public...
View ArticleCool Mara Riot: The big money, bitcoin-biotech daisy chain
By Chris Carey Jim McNair contributed to this report (First of two parts) Three companies whose stock made big moves last year are linked by undisclosed relationships that raise numerous red flags...
View ArticleCool Mara Riot, Part Two: Securities-fraud case against South Florida group...
By Chris Carey Jim McNair and Kevin O’Connor contributed to this report When financier Barry C. Honig was waging a proxy fight for control of the company that became Riot Blockchain Inc. (Nasdaq:...
View ArticleJudges weighing appeal by billionaire John Paul DeJoria and recidivist Howard...
A federal appeals panel is mulling whether billionaire John Paul DeJoria, recidivist securities fraudster Howard M. Appel and two other defendants should have to pay $21.4 million in damages arising...
View ArticleMarathon Patent Group: Chronology of share transactions shows group facing...
Marathon Patent Group Inc.’s latest financial reports provide new details on suspect securities transactions by financier Barry C. Honig and his associates, and raise more questions about the company’s...
View ArticleFormer Trump cabinet member has $90,000 consulting deal with questionable...
Jim McNair contributed to this report Former Interior Secretary Ryan K. Zinke, who resigned last year amid multiple ethics investigations, is a consultant for a mining company created and financed by...
View ArticleDo cbdMD Inc.’s celebrity endorsers know who they’re doing business with?
Jim McNair contributed to this report Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson, who refers to himself on Twitter as a Christian, husband, daddy and golfer – in that order — has lent his name and...
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