Enforcement Actions Criminal Civil

Melissa Marie Ramon , 33, of Bellaire, Texas was indicted by a grand jury on October 27, 2008, in connection with her alleged operation of a fraudulent investment scheme in a company known as JaxTrece. Ms. Ramon was charged with 10 counts of wire fraud and 3 counts of mail fraud. Alleged...

Chris Fraley of Houston, TX, was indicted October 20, 2008, by the Grand Jury of Harris Co., TX, in Cause No. 1188310 for the charge of theft in the aggregate. Fraley allegedly appropriated money by deception in connection with the offer and sale of interests in an oil and gas lease from March 2008...

Richard Allen Wilson , of Pearland, Texas, was indicted on September 25, 2008 for acting as a dealer/agent without registration and selling unregistered securities. Both indictments involve the sale of interests in Brazos Valley Capital, LLC, and each indictment has multiple victims. David Hilburn...

Stephen B. Jones , of Corpus Christi, Texas, was indicted on September 4, 2008, by a Grand Jury in Nueces County, Texas, in Cause Nos. 08-CR-2903-A, 08-CR-2906-A, 08-CR-2907-A, and 08-CR2908-A, on charges of securities fraud, the sale of unregistered securities, the sale of securities without a...

George O. Houseman , of Carrollton, Texas, pled guilty on September 2, 2008, in Collin County, Texas, to a felony information charging him with engaging in fraud in connection with the sale of securities, working interests in oil and/or gas leases in the state of Texas, in an amount of $100,000.00...

Dean Lee Elliott , of Dallas, Texas, was charged with engaging in fraud in connection with the sale of securities in Cause No. 219-81596-08 in an indictment handed down by a Collin County Grand Jury on July 22, 2008. The indictment alleges Elliott sold working interests to the public in oil and gas...

Samuel Longoria , of Mercedes, Texas, was indicted on May 14, 2008, in the 107th District Court of Cameron County, Texas, Cause No. 08-CR-00000953, on charges of theft by deception, misapplication of fiduciary property, the sale of unregistered securities, the sale of securities without a license...

William Leon Fenoglio and Jamalyn Jones Fenoglio , of Bowie, Texas, were both indicted on one charge of theft against an elderly individual on April 29, 2008, in the 142nd District Court of Midland County, Texas, Cause Nos. CR34548 and CR34549 respectively. William Fenoglio, a licensed insurance...

Kenneth William Elgin, of Tyler, Texas, doing business as West Coast Resources, Inc. and Trinidad Exploration, Inc., was sentenced on April 10, 2008, in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Cause No. 6:07cr43, after pleading guilty to wire fraud. Elgin raised $805,000 from investors...

Richard T. Ranspot of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced on April 8, 2008, in the 366th District Court of Collin County, Texas, Cause No. 366-82429-07, after pleading guilty to securities fraud, with the amount involved over $100,000. As a sales agent for Aransas Oil Company, Inc.; Mineral Leases of the...