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Newton plans to begin full in-person learning for elementary school students either March 29 or April 5, Superintendent David Fleishman said Monday. (Jenna Fisher/Patch)
NEWTON, MA Newton plans to begin full in-person learning for elementary school students either March 29 or April 5, Superintendent David Fleishman said Monday. What we don t know are the school hours, but we plan to have those school hours set by March 15, Fleishman told the School Committee.
Fleishman said that as the district plans for the full, in-person school model for the youngest grades, he expects some families will be interested in making changes from the distanced or hybrid models they might currently be in.
Litigation Release No. 25035 / February 24, 2021
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Bajic et al., No. 20-cv-00007 (S.D.N.Y. filed January 2, 2020)
A federal court in New York recently entered final judgments against Anthony Killarney and the entities Blacklight SA, Tamarind Investments Inc., and SSID Ltd. for their roles in a scheme that generated more than $35 million of illegal sales of stock in at least 45 microcap companies. Among other things, the court imposed an injunction and penny stock bar on Killarney, and ordered the three entities to pay a combined total of over $14 million in monetary relief.
As alleged in the SEC s complaint, filed in January 2020, Killarney, a U.K. citizen, together with Kenneth Ciapala, a citizen of the U.K. and Switzerland, controlled the Swiss-based company Blacklight. According to the complaint, Killarney and Ciapala used Blacklight to help undisclosed public company insiders or control persons secretly dump large quantities of microcap sto
Litigation Release No. 24979 / December 9, 2020
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Gomes et al.;, Civil Action No. 1:20-cv-11092 (D. Mass. filed June 9, 2020)
United States v. Schmidt, No. 20-mj-06415 (D. Mass. filed June 8, 2020)
On December 4, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts entered final judgments against FFS Capital Limited, Paifang Trading Limited, Artefactor Limited, Meadow Asia Limited, and Thyme International Limited. Among other things, the judgments order these entities to pay a total of $12,895,750 in civil penalties, disgorgement, and prejudgment interest.
On June 9, 2020, the Commission filed an emergency action and obtained an asset freeze against five individuals and six offshore entities for an alleged fraudulent scheme that generated more than $25 million from illegal sales of multiple microcap companies stock.