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UPDATE 6.6.16: That state of Conn. sentenced Tara Bryson to 8 years in jail, execution suspended after 2 years to serve, with three years probation, according to the clerk’s office in Litchfield County where she plead guilty to 10 counts of animal cruelty on June 3rd. The clerks office also confirmed she was taken to […]
ContinuePart of the hedge fund duo who was arrested this summer for growing a year round pot farm in Newtown, Connecticut has pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail. I first reported in September for Forbes, how Tara Bryson, of Ridgefield-based New Stream Capital, was allegedly cultivating a pot farm in her million dollar mansion […]
ContinueThe Manhattan District Attorney thinks Tom Marano and his star mortgage traders cheating their own clients out of billions constitutes criminal behavior. I reported today at DealFlow Media, an active investigation is under way and the D.A. plans to use the Martin Act to charge these former Bear traders. I first reported in late January […]
ContinueN.I.R. Group investors are not too pleased about a voluntary liquidation of all the AJW funds set into motion by the hedge fund last week. Today I reported for DealFlow Media ,Corey Ribotsky the fund’s manager, wrote his offshore investors on March 31st announcing the liquidation and altering them to the fact that some investors […]
ContinuePlainfield’s general counsel, Thomas Fritsch, told a trade publication this week he thinks the Dodd-Frank Act is unfair because the fund can’t confront their anonymous accusers. You know-the ones that sent internal documents and taped conversations to the SEC in a whistleblower compliant last summer. (And everyone’s been writing about.) Well that’s odd because I […]
ContinueIt looks like the Securities and Exchange Commission is taking the whistleblower complaint against Max Holmes and his hedge fund Plainfield Asset Management seriously. This month I detailed at The Distressed Debt Report specific evidence anonymous Plainfield staffers have turned over to regulators describing how Holmes has been allegedly overvaluing billions of the fund’s assets […]
ContinueIndyMac executives were individually charged for fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission today but the FDIC has known about these problems since they took the bank over in July 2008. Mike Perry, CEO and Chairman of IndyMac Bank, was sued for securities fraud by the S.E.C for misleading investors about the capital and liquidity […]
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Last night, in white-out conditions during the snow storm, and with slippery rail conditions, a train ran off the end of the rail at New Canaan. I saw the scene at 10:45 when I went to the Starbucks across the street from the station. I decided this could be a story to sell. I started […]
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