Why is NIR Group Selling Investments for Little Cash Down?

NIR Group is offering sweet deals to third party funds who will convert their PIPE notes for them. I reported on one of the firesale deals this week for DealFlow Media and am still left wondering why NIR is asking for so little money down. To read the details of the deal, based on transaction […]

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Did New Canaan Patch Hold a Bank Fraud story to Appease Advertisers?

Yesterday the FDIC took depositions of borrowers who say Fred DeCaro Jr. and his son Fred DeCaro III committed serious lending violations while running now failed USA Bank. The publicly traded institution which focused on construction lending to some of Greenwich and New Canaan McMansion developers, was the subject of an investigative report I published […]

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Occupy Wall Street’s New Bank Responds to Reports

It took them more than 24 hours but Occupy Wall Street’s new Union owned bank has decided to respond to reports that an FDIC enforcement action showed some not so safe banking practices. I’ve still been denied an interview with any of the banks newly placed executives nor have they answered questions about the glaring […]

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Occupy Wall Street’s New Bank Under FDIC Enforcement Action

Occupy Wall Street has deposited donated funds in New York-based Amalgamated Bank but the FDIC has a bulls eye on the bank’s executives. At the end of August the federal regulator issued a scathing enforcement action calling for a third party review of the banks management and issuing a directive for the bank to lower […]

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FDIC calls USA Bank Borrowers in to Testify Against DeCaro

It looks like the FDIC is finally building a case against the DeCaros for their role in the failure of USA Bank. Borrowers who spoke out in my DealFlow stories about alleged lending abuse and forged mortgage documents were subpoenaed by the FDIC two weeks ago. Ron Scheckter, James Scheckter, and Maurizio Carusone have all […]

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NIR Group Investors say Ribotsky Commited More Fraud during Reorganization

Corey Ribotsky was charged by the SEC for misappropriation of assets in his NIR Group hedge funds but DealFlow Media is reporting the alleged fraud doesn’t stop there. Investors are now being told by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the fund’s court appointed liquidator, Ribotsky never signed the legal document that assigned collateral rights from the old AJW Master […]

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SEC Charges NIR Group Ribotsky with Massive Fraud Scheme

NIR Group founder Corey Ribotsky was finally charged with creating a scheme to defraud investors in his hedge funds. Today the SEC filed a 34-page lawsuit detailing how Ribotsky lied to investors in 2008 about the value of the assets when he could not meet redemption request. The federal regulator, who DealFlow Media has been […]

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Wells Fargo Suit against JP Morgan Highlights Rampant Missreps in Bear Stearns RMBS

Wells Fargo is fighting back for investors in a toxic 2007 Bear Stearns mortgage security. On Wednesday, the bank acting on behalf of investors as the trustee of the security, filed a breach of representations suit against J.P. Morgan and its subsidy EMC. The suit is over $560 million of loans investors believe should be […]

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