DOJ and SEC Pursue Decision Diagnostics CEO on COVID-19 Testing Fraud
Posted on 12/19/2020
The U.S. Justice Department revealed that a federal grand jury has indicted a California chief executive for allegedly concocting a scheme to defraud investors with false claims about a COVID-19 test. The false claim led to investor losses. Keith Berman, 67, the CEO of Decision Diagnostics Inc., was charged with one count of securities fraud and one count of making false statements, the DOJ said. The SEC temporarily suspended trading in Decision Diagnostics’ securities on April 23, 2020. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, charges Decision Diagnostics and Berman with violating antifraud provisions of the securities laws
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SEC Charges Biotech Company and CEO with Fraud Concerning COVID-19 Blood Testing Device
Washington, D.C. (Newsfile Corp. - December 18, 2020) - The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against California-based biotechnology company Decision Diagnostics Corp. and its CEO, Keith Berman, with making false and misleading claims in numerous press releases that the company had developed a working, break-through technology that could accurately detect Covid-19 through a quick blood test. The SEC temporarily suspended trading in Decision Diagnostics securities on April 23, 2020.
The SEC s complaint alleges that Decision Diagnostics and Berman seized upon the global pandemic through a series of press releases that falsely claimed Decision Diagnostics had developed a finger prick blood test that could detect Covid-19 in less than a minute. According to the complaint, from March 2020 to at least June 2020, Decision Diagnostics and Berman made false and misleading stat
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Decision Diagnostics Corp. and its chief executive for allegedly misleading investors by promising the biotechnology company could test for COVID-19 with a finger-prick of blood and provide accurate results in less than one minute.
In a complaint filed on Thursday in Manhattan federal court, the SEC said Chief Executive Keith Berman made materially false statements between March and June about what he claimed was his company’s blood testing kit, and its efforts to obtain Food and Drug Administration approval for its emergency use.