Enforcement Actions Criminal Civil

A Laredo who changed his legal name to Tonie P. (formerly Tonie Perez) was sentenced to 10 years in state prison on Nov. 6 in Bexar County State District Court. Tonie P. was convicted of securing the execution of a document by deception against an elderly person – a retired U.S. Army chaplain and...

Jason Bruce Lively and Melissa Jean Lively (also known as Melissa Jean Gentolizo) of Arlington were each sentenced Oct. 25 in Bexar County State District to 10 years deferred adjudication and ordered to pay a total of $185,792 in restitution. Jason Lively was the former president of an oil and gas...

Paul Michael Harney of San Antonio pleaded guilty to two counts of theft from the elderly of between $1,500 and $20,000 was sentenced in Bexar County on Oct. 22 to concurrent five-year state prison sentences. Harney was indicted in February 2012 on four of the theft from the elderly charges...

Casey Ray Vanloon, Ricky Ray Knowles , and John David Riddle were sentenced to 10 years deferred adjudication Oct. 7 for their role in a fraud centered on a proposed biodiesel plant in Hunt County. The three men, sentenced in Collin County State District Court after pleading guilty to engaging in...

Tracy Morgan Spaeth was arrested Oct. 7 at the Lubbock office of his business, Uncommon Wealth Management LLP, and charged with one count of securities fraud, two counts of the sale of securities by an unregistered dealer or agent, and two counts of the sale of unregistered securities. Spaeth...

Brian Keith Blalock pleaded guilty to theft of property Sept. 27 in the 415th State District Court in Parker County and was sentenced to 10 years probation. Blalock was the owner and operator of IEP Capital LLC in Fort Worth, which managed the IEP Oil Fund LP, a fraudulent investment program...

William C. Mays was indicted Sept. 26 in the 105th State District Court in Nueces County on charges of securities fraud, securing the execution of a document by deception, theft, and money laundering. The charges stem from Mays’ allegedly fraudulent investment scheme in which told investors they...

Richard D. Hicks of Tyler was indicted on securities fraud charges Sept. 26 in the 241st State District Court in Smith County. Hicks sold promissory notes issued by National Note of Utah LC, which the Securities and Exchange has charged is a $100 million real-estate based Ponzi scheme. Hicks has...

Robert Joseph Mangiafico Jr. was sentenced to 40 years in state prison on Sept. 18 in the 380th State District Court in Collin County. Mangiafico had pleaded guilty to charges of theft and money laundering . Mangiafico stole approximately $655,000 from elderly women in North Texas whom he convinced...

Sami A. London , also known as Sami Asifali Mahomed, pleaded guilty Sept. 11 to one count of securities fraud in Tom Green County state District Court. London was sentenced to 10 years deferred adjudication and ordered to pay a total of $202,000 in restitution to five victims. London solicited...