GPB Capital Founder and CEO Indicted for Alleged Fraud
In a parallel action to the DOJ’s, the Securities and Exchange Commission also charged GPB and a broker/dealer that marketed its securities with running an allegedly Ponzi-like scheme that raised over $1.7 billion.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment Thursday of three individuals affiliated with GPB Capital, a New York-based private placement shop, with securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy in a scheme that raised over $1.7 billion from investors. GPB’s owner and CEO David Gentile, Jeffry Schneider, owner of GPB’s placement agent Ascendant Capital, and Jeffrey Lash, a former managing partner at GPB, have been arrested, each facing up to 20 years in prison.