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A daily look at legal news and the business of law: Major Law Firm Helps "Nigerian" Scam Defraud Americans Two Baker Hostetler partners helped defraud nine investors of over $1 million in a ...
In the second show-cause notice, media reports said, SEBI sent notices to five broker firms, as it was not satisfied with the explanation offered by them on allegations of mis-selling. The SEBI officers have formed an opinion that the brokers should not be granted licences for commodity business.
A recovery room scam is a form of advance-fee fraud where the scammer (sometimes posing as a law enforcement officer or attorney) calls investors who have been sold worthless shares (for example in a boiler-room scam), and offers to buy them, to allow the investors to recover their investments. [92]
The State Bar of California is an administrative division of the Supreme Court of California which licenses attorneys and regulates the practice of law in California. [2] It is responsible for managing the admission of lawyers to the practice of law, investigating complaints of professional misconduct, prescribing appropriate discipline, accepting attorney-member fees, and financially ...
The two firms gave MyPillow the $1.6 million loan under a merchant cash advance. A merchant cash advance is a specific type of convoluted financial agreement that lets the issuer bypass laws that ...
The seven men arrested at sit-ins in mid-March, 1960, had already spent the month peacefully protesting Jim Crow laws that allowed segregation in schools, businesses and other public places; bans ...
Attorney Brett Gibbs claimed to have—but never produced—an original notarized signature of "Alan Cooper, Manager of Ingenuity 13 LLC." [58] [59]On May 6, 2013, Judge Wright sanctioned Prenda Law and its "principals" Steele, Hansmeier, and Duffy, along with Gibbs, whom he termed "attorneys with shattered law practices", $81,319.72 (of which half was punitive) [4]: p.10 for "brazen ...
Cybersecurity experts and law enforcement officials have a simple, but effective, recommendation for avoiding getting victimized by such scams: creating a family "safe word," along with a protocol ...