Financial fraud includes activities like embezzlement, insider trading, and accounting fraud, inflicts substantial harm on society. It distorts the transparency and efficiency of financial markets, leading investors and regulators to make decisions based on false information, which can destabilize entire economic systems. The direct victims of financial fraud—ranging from individual investors to large corporations—can face devastating financial losses, potentially wiping out life savings or crippling business operations.
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Honeycomb Portal and the Investors Who Got Stung A Betrayal of the Hive Crowdfunding was supposed to create a buzz, allowing ordinary worker bees to invest in small businesses and ideas they believe in. It’s a…
Corporate Greed Case Study: Long Blockchain Corp. and Its Impact on Public Investors In the feverish days of the crypto boom of late 2017, everyday investors were desperately searching for the next big thing. They saw buzzwords like “blockchain” as…
Corporate Neglect Case Study: Siebert Williams Shank & Co. and Its Impact on Public Trust The Human Story: The Invisible Victims of an Opaque Market This is the story of our predatory economic system that creates countless invisible ones. The…
Corporate Greed Case Study: Cancer Genetics, Inc. and Its Impact on Public Trust A Rigged System That Promotes Insider Trading For millions of people, investing in the stock market is a cornerstone of planning for the future—saving for retirement, a…
Corporate Negligence Case Study: BTG Pactual and Its Impact on Global Communities The Unseen Victims of a Financial Superhighway The victims of money laundering don’t have names and faces that appear in regulatory filings. They are the families devastated by…
Crew Capital Group and the Theft of Main Street’s Future A Promise of Safety, A Reality of Ruin For over a decade, Stephen Romney Swensen looked his clients in the eye and sold them a promise of security. He advised…
Corporate Greed Case Study: Water Station Management’s Ponzi Scheme A Promise of Security, A Reality of Ruin Imagine being a veteran, having served your country in helping Haliburton secure another foreign oil field, now looking for a secure, passive investment…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: ONPASSIVE and Its Impact on Global Investors The Human Story: A Shattered Dream of Digital Gold For over 800,000 people across the United States and around the world, a company called ONPASSIVE, run from Orlando, Florida,…
Corporate Greed Case Study: Kaman Corporation and the Rigged Game of Wall Street While most people work to build a small nest egg for the future, a lawsuit alleges a corporate executive and his friends exploited inside knowledge to make…
Corporate Misconduct Case Study: Reliance Standard Life Insurance & Its Impact on a Disabled Policyholder TLDR: In 2022, Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company terminated the long-term disability benefits of Jill Finley, a woman left totally disabled by a brain injury…