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Houston-Area Adviser Pleads Guilty in $1.9 Million Fraud
Lawrence Allen DeShetler, an investment adviser and former certified financial planner in The Woodlands, pleaded guilty to mail fraud June 8 in U.S. District Court in Beaumont, Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston announced.
DeShetler fraudulently obtained $1.9 million from five...
Email Request Marked SPAM, But Compliance Officer Wired Money Anyway
Securities Commissioner John Morgan entered a Disciplinary Order June 2 that fined and reprimanded a Chicago-based securities dealer whose compliance officer repeatedly wired funds to individuals pretending to be a 75-year-old Texas client of the firm.
In three separate transactions in...
Southeast Asia, West Africa, and a Bankrupt Texas Investment Promoter
Nearly $341,000 in restitution has been paid to investors in a company whose fraud stretched from Southeast Asia to southeast Texas to West Africa.
Alan Derek Jernigan , who sold investments in deals that would purportedly export medical test kits to the Philippines and Malaysia, was...
Unregistered Dallas Firm Agrees to Halt Stock Sales
Dback Capital Inc . of Dallas and its president, Kenneth Edward Shelton , agreed to stop violating the law by selling stock in two companies to Texas residents.
Texas Securities Commissioner John Morgan entered the Agreed and Cease Desist Order on May 22.
Neither Dback Capital...
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