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Evarist Amah Lost 97% of His Congregation’s Money and Told Them It Was Growing

Amah raised about $700,000 from nine fellow members of the Grail Movement, promising part of the profits would support their ...
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Mayur Baviskar Stopped Payment on Money He Actually Had to Trade $1.4M He Didn’t

Over five years Baviskar pushed $377,200 of unfunded deposits into brokerage accounts at nine firms, traded more than $1.4M ...
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Archil Cheishvili Paid Himself $350K a Year to Run GenesisAI, Which Had No Product

Cheishvili raised $5.3M from over 4,000 retail investors for an AI marketplace, forecast $250M in 2024 revenue, and delivered ...
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Dean Graziosi Made $10M While 95% of His Seminar Attendees Lost Money

Graziosi was paid a percentage of every dollar his seminars persuaded people to spend, which came to roughly $10 million. The ...
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Stephen Buyer Served 22 Months for Insider Trading and the SEC Just Let It Go

The former Indiana congressman learned about the T-Mobile Sprint merger at a golf outing, bought $568,000 of Sprint stock, ...
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Duane Slade of 1859 Operating Ran an Oil Lease Offering After a $166M Ponzi Conviction

The substance of the SEC’s application is a catalogue of non-compliance. The Commission issued subpoenas to the corporate respondents and several individuals in April 2024, and to Duane Slade in July ...
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Daniel Chu of Tricolor Double Pledged the Same Auto Loans to Multiple Lenders Before a $1.9B Collapse

Daniel Chu, the founder and former CEO of Tricolor Holdings LLC, built the Dallas-based company into one of the largest subprime auto lenders and used-car retailers in the United States, operating ...
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Ivan Moad of Moma Fund Sold His Investors’ Palantir Shares and Kept $2.1M for Himself

Ivan Moad, 43, of Newport Beach, California, was the managing member and sole control person of Moma Fund II, LLC, a California investment vehicle he established in December 2013 to pool investor ...