Posts from May 2019.

The SEC recently issued an investor alert warning about crypto advisory and trading websites.  The alert cautions investors to be especially wary of web-based crypto-currency sites with any of these red-flags:

  • Outsized “guaranteed” investment returns.
  • Complicated jargon or difficult-to-understand technologies.
  • Unlicensed sellers.
  • Sounds too good to be true.
  • Unsolicited offers.
  • Urgency to act.

…in short, the usual hallmarks of many scams.

The advisory comes on the heels of an indictment against two Nigerian citizens for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit ...

Posted in: Cryptocurrency, SEC

Last week, the D.C. Circuit held that the SEC can’t prosecute the same conduct as both willful and as negligent under the tandem sections found in most of the nation’s securities laws.  The ruling prevents the SEC from piling on an additional negligence-based offense as some sort of “lesser included offense” in enforcement actions.

The SEC brought an administrative enforcement action against the Texas-based Robare Group and its officers for inadequate disclosure of a revenue-sharing agreement with Fidelity over certain funds on Fidelity’s platform.  The firm’s ADV ...

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