April 30, 2021
Five Charged in Offering Fraud, Stock Manipulation, Ranging from Oil to Pot
Prosecutors say the defendants unwittingly conspired with an undercover agent who was posting as a corrupt stock promoter.
Five people have been charged in federal court for their involvement in two securities fraud schemes. According to prosecutors, the schemes involved an offering fraud of a Texas-based oil and gas company and the attempted manipulation of a cannabis company’s publicly traded stock.
An indictment was filed in the Eastern District of New York against Richard Dale Sterritt Jr., Michael Greer, Robert Magness, Mark Ross, and Robyn Straza charging them with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, among other offenses.
Five Charged in Offering Fraud, Stock Manipulation, Money Laundering
ai-cio.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ai-cio.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
U S prosecutors: Fraudulent Dallas energy company led by a convicted con artist bilked $16 million from investors
dallasnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dallasnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SEC Charges Felon And Six Others In Oil-And-Gas Offering Fraud Date
14/04/2021
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged seven individuals, including criminal recidivist Richard Dale Sterritt, Jr., with defrauding investors through a multimillion dollar oil-and-gas offering fraud and related market manipulation scheme.
The SEC s complaint alleges that, between March 2018 and at least November 2020, Sterritt – who used the pseudonym Richard Richman – Michael Greer, Deanna Looney, Robert Magness, Jr., Katie Mathews, James Christopher Pittman, and Mark Ross raised more than $16 million from more than 300 investors through an unregistered private placement of the common stock of Zona Energy Inc., a Dallas-based company that claimed to be focused on the oil and gas industry. According to the complaint, the defendants made various false and misleading statements verbally and in offering materials to solicit investors, including that their funds would be used t