Environmental Enforcement • Puerto Rico • Clean Air Act How Grid Instability Became an Excuse For PREPA & Genera PR to Poison Puerto Rico’s Air Published July 15, 2025 • Source: EPA Region II Final Order, CAA-02-2025-1203 TL;DR The Puerto…
SEC Enforcement Insider Trading Filed: July 21, 2025 Scottsdale, Arizona He Turned His Best Friend’s Secret Into $77,000. The SEC Watched the Whole Trade. TL;DR Brian Kashman, 51, of Scottsdale, Arizona used a secret his decade-long friend accidentally shared to…
TL;DR Grove Farm Company, Inc., a major Kauai land developer, operated at least seven large-capacity cesspools across three commercial properties for roughly 20 years after federal law required them to be closed by April 5, 2005. These open-bottomed pits dumped…
Ponzi Scheme | Financial Fraud | SEC Enforcement He Called It an Investment. The SEC Calls It Theft. Edwin Lickiss spent years selling fake government bonds to dozens of trusting people, pocketing their money to pay his own bills and…
EvilCorporations.com — Banking & Financial Fraud Wells Fargo Stole Your Mortgage Fees, Held Them for Over a Decade, Then Sent You a Check and Hoped You’d Shut Up EvilCorporations.com • Case No. CGC-25-6260161 / 3:25-cv-05959 • 23 min read TL;DR…
TL;DR NextMed (Southern Health Solutions, Inc.) sold weight-loss programs advertising Ozempic and Wegovy, but the advertised price did not include the cost of the actual medication, lab work, or medical consultations required to get a prescription. The company ran fake…
Investment Fraud / SEC Enforcement How to Turn Love and Trust Into a $5.5 Million Piggy Bank A Bronxville financial advisor spent 14 years looting his family and closest friends, then told them their money was growing. It wasn’t. The…
TL;DR Pinnacle Investments, LLC, a brokerage firm with 70 registered representatives across 20 offices, ran a paper-thin compliance operation for years while real people lost real money. A single registered representative recommended complex, high-risk investment products to 13 retail customers…
EvilCorporations.com | Wall Street Investigations The $20 Million Betrayal How Silver Leaf Partners paid millions to unlicensed insiders, lied to the SEC, and nearly destroyed itself chasing deals it had no business touching. TL;DR Silver Leaf Partners, a New York…
Financial Crime • Market Manipulation • FINRA Enforcement 14 Years of Blind Eyes How Barclays Capital let market manipulation run unchecked for over a decade — and paid a fine that cost them less than a rounding error. TL;DR From…