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Florida-Based Stock Promoter Charged with Lying to SEC Investigators – Florida Securities and Private Placement Fraud and Mismanagement Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced that the subject of an enforcement inquiry in Florida has has been criminally charged for obstructing justice and lying to SEC investigators looking into his real estate securities offerings to investors. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida has filed criminal charges against former broker…

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Front Running – Florida Securities and Investment Fraud, Mismanagement and Breach of Fiduciary Duty FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Commission Charges Dallas-Based Trader with Front-Running The Securities and Exchange Commission recently announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against a trader at a Dallas-based investment advisory firm who improperly profited by placing his own trades before executing large block trades for firm clients that had strong potential to increase the stock’s price. The SEC…

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SEC Charges NASDAQ for Failures During Facebook IPO – Florida Securities and Investment Violations FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged NASDAQ with securities laws violations resulting from its poor systems and decision-making during the initial public offering (IPO) and secondary market trading of Facebook shares. NASDAQ has agreed to settle the SEC’s charges by paying a $10 million penalty – the largest ever against an exchange. Exchanges have…

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Negligent Misrepresentation – Florida Commercial, Business and Tort State and Federal Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Negligent Misrepresentation – Florida Commercial, Business and Tort – State and Federal Court Litigation and AAA Arbitration Attorney: In order to allege a viable cause of action for negligent misrepresentation a plaintiff must allege in his complaint that: (1) the defendant made a misrepresentation of material fact that he believed to be true but which…

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Professional Negligence (Malpractice) Claims Against Accountants (CPA), Engineers, Surveyors, Architects and Others – Florida State and Federal Court Litigation and AAA Arbitration Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Professional Negligence Claims Against Accountants, Engineers, Surveyors, Architects and Others – Florida State and Federal Litigation and AAA Arbitration Attorney: In Florida, professional negligence claims require four elements: (1) existence of a legal duty, (2) breach of the duty, (3) proximate causation, and (4) actual loss. Generally, this duty of care only exists between parties…

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Numismatic Coin – Florida Precious Metals and Numismatic Coin Fraud and Misrepresentation State and Federal Court Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Numismatic Coin – Florida Precious Metals and Numismatic Coin Fraud and Misrepresentation State and Federal Court Litigation Attorney: A Numismatic Coin is a coin that is valued based on its rarity, age, the quantity originally produced, and condition. These coins are bought and sold as individual items within the coin collecting community. Most Numismatic Coins…

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Naked Option and Covered Option – Florida Securities Fraud, Misrepresentation, Breach of Fiduciary Duty FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Naked Option – Florida Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Negligent Supervision and Mismanagement FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney: A Naked Option is an option for which the buyer or seller has no underlying security position. A writer of a naked Call Option, therefore does not own a Long Position in the stock on which the call…

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Municipal Bond Insurance – Florida Municipal Security FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Municipal Bond and Municipal Security – Florida FINRA Arbitration and State and Federal Litigation Attorney: A Muni is a popular designation for a municipal security, especially a Municipal Bond. Municipal Bonds are debt obligations of a state or local government entity. The funds received by the entity may support general governmental needs or special projects.…

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Merger – Florida Breach of Contract or Letter of Intent Commercial and Business Dispute and Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Merger – Florida Breach of Contract, Breach of Letter of Intent, and Breach of Fiduciary Duty Commercial and Business Dispute and Litigation Attorney: A merger is a combination of two or more companies, where the amount paid over and above the acquired company’s book value is carried on the books of the purchaser as goodwill;…

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Blake Richards – Securities and Investment Fraud and Misappropriation FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Attorney
Russell L. Forkey

Securities and Exchange Commission v. Blake Richards, Civil Action No. 1:13-CV-1729 (N.D. Ga.) SEC Charges Atlanta-Area Registered Representative and Registered Investment Adviser Representative with Securities Fraud On May 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed an emergency action seeking a temporary restraining order and other emergency relief in federal court in the Northern District of…

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