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Irvine Financial Advisor Accused of Theft of Client Money, Funds Used to Pay Daughter’s Private School Tuition
February 22, 2012 No Comment
IRVINE – The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Brenda A. Eschbach with investment advisory fraud and securities fraud. The SEC accuses Eschbach with being involved in multi-year misappropriation of client funds. Eschbach, who hails from Tustin, California, has been acting as an unregistered broker, and has allegedly misappropriated $3 million in investment advisory client […]
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CHICAGO – U.S. District Judge David Herndon sentenced 58 year old Victoria McGee-Harris, a licensed insurance agent and securities broker operating from Swansea, to 17 ½ years in federal prison on charges of wire fraud and money laundering. McGee-Harris, who sold annuities and other financial instruments for MetLife, charmed over 50 investors, mostly elderly and […]
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St. George businessman and philanthropist Jeremy Johnson has been accused of defrauding online consumers and trying to siphon away $51.4 million and hide it from the Federal Trade Commission, which is in the process of investigating Johnson’s company called I Works. Johnson earned this money mainly through processing online poker payments and Johnson is known […]
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Michael Joseph Krzyzaniak, 63, has been sentenced to 151 months in prison, the maximum allowed, for having scammed investors of $26 million. Krzyzaniak, a Twin Cities man was sentenced in federal court in Minneapolis. He perpetrated this scam by claiming celebrity endorsement. One of the celebrities in question here was pro golfer Phil Mickelson. Krzyzaniak […]
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