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The long arm of the law caught up with a phony ‘fund manager’ who defrauded investors seeking to buy stocks of social media companies including pre-IPO shares of Facebook.
An investigation conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission found a financier living in Florida fleeced investors with claims of special access to coveted social media stocks, says an SEC release.
It was later found that he collected “at least $13.2 million from 120 investors” to pay another set of investors who fell prey to a similar trick pulled off by the accused.
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