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SEC Shuts Down Ponzi-Style Scheme Involving Eleven Unregistered Hedge Funds

SEC v. James M. Nicholson and Westgate Capital Management, LLC

  • 2010
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Investment management company and its managing member defrauded investors in eleven unregistered hedge funds under their control using a variety of tactics, including materially false and misleading sales materials and oral statements regarding the performance of the funds, and fake audits of financial statements by a fictitious accounting firm. Approximately $133 million was lost prior to the SEC’s injunction, out of $290 million raised. The individual defendant was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

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