Category: Securities and Investments
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Broward judge, regulators chomp down on broker’s alleged effort to steal dogs’ inheritance
By Ann Henson Feltgen
BrowardBulldog.org
A Broward County probate judge has nipped an alleged attempt to redirect a $3 million inheritance intended to care for four beloved show dogs following their owner’s death. -
Justice hard to find for South Florida investment victims, but swindler will be home for holidays
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
There is no justice for Marion Green and others victimized by stock broker and swindler Gary J. Gross. He fleeced dozens of his clients from across South Florida, many he worshiped with at a Boca Raton synagogue. Their total losses were as much as $20 million. Federal arbitrators ruled Gross should pay three-dozen of his victims $7.5 million. Other big awards were imposed, too, but so far no one has seen a dime. -
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Lawyers call for stronger watchdog as state’s top financial regulator readies to step down
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Florida’s top financial regulator will step down this summer and South Florida securities lawyers who say they’re seeing an ugly resurgence of boiler room stock fraud and bucket shop commodity swindles are calling on Gov. Rick Scott to name a replacement who will beef up state regulation. -
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Cleared lawyer says regulators who failed to stop Madoff, Stanford sank his watchdog appointment
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
St. Petersburg securities lawyer Kevin Carreno says he was targeted to prevent his appointment as Florida’s top financial watchdog because he threatened to expose regulators for failing to uncover the multi-billion dollar Ponzi schemes of Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford. -
Cleared of insider trading charges, Zachariah is back in presidential politics
By Buddy Nevins
BrowardBulldog.org
Less than three months after being cleared of civil insider stock trading, Fort Lauderdale heart doctor and top Republican fund raiser Zachariah P. Zachariah is back in big time, big money politics. -
High-living ex-stockbroker who can no longer shear clients, arrested by FBI for bilking banks
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Two years after federal arbitrators found he had fleeced millions of dollars from clients with whom he once worshipped, disgraced South Florida stockbroker Gary Jay Gross was among 15 defendants charged last week in a large bank fraud scheme.
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