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Press Release: SEC Charges Investment Adviser For Inventing a Billion-Dollar Client to Lure New Investors; 2009-51; March 9, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2009-51 Washington, D.C., March 9, 2009— The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a money manager with offices in New York and Rhode Island for falsely creating a billion-dollar client in order to gain credibility and attract legitimate investors. In its ...
What’s the Beef with Leveraged ETFs?
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Transcript: March 11, 2009 Prepared Testimony of SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Before House Financial Services Subcommittee
Transcript: March 11, 2009 Prepared Testimony of SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro Before House ...
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SEC Warns Investors and Financial Firms of Government Impersonators
sec.gov — The Securities and Exchange Commission today is warning investors and financial services firms about con-artists who may... use the names of actual SEC employees to mislead potential victims. The agency also is providing information to help potential ... (more) SEC Warns Investors and Financial Firms of Government ...
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A female Bernie Madoff?
BloggingStocks — ... According to the press release, "The SEC alleges that Jenkins lied to the SEC staff about the existence of the invented client and furnished the SEC staff with bogus documents in 2008, including fake account statements that she created." ...

S.E.C. Says Money Manager Invented Big Accounts
DealBook — U.S. regulators charged a money manager with fabricating several large client accounts in order to lure legitimate investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Monday. The S.E.C. alleged that Leila Jenkins and her firm, Locke Capital Management , invented large advisory client accounts purportedly based in Switzerland and repeatedly claimed the accounts contained more than $1 billion in assets that she managed, Reuters said. Ms. Jenkins lied about the accounts’ existence to investors and S.E.C. staff and provided the S.E.C. with “bogus” documents in 2008 such as fake account statements that she created, the S.E.C. said. ...

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