Securities Fraud Toltec Capital Stole $2.2 Million From Investors Through Systematic Fraud EvilCorporations.com • Case No. 3:24-cv-5823-RS • U.S. District Court, N.D. California • 13 min read TL;DR Bernardo Mendia-Alcaraz, operating through his firm Toltec Capital LLC, defrauded investors out…
SEC Complaint • Insider Trading • Civil Action No. 26-cv-10350 The Insider Who Knew the Drug Would Fail EvilCorporations.com • SEC v. Brian J. Suthoff, D. Mass. (Jan. 26, 2026) • 11 min read TL;DR Brian J. Suthoff, a 56-year-old…
EvilCorporations.com • SEC v. Mathews et al., 26 Civ. 693 (S.D.N.Y.) • 51 min read The Money That Left and Came Back: How Three Executives Ran a Fake Revenue Machine and Sent a Nearly Billion-Dollar Data Company Into Bankruptcy From…
SEC Civil Action No. 1:26-cv-603 • SDNY The Lottery Was Rigged From the Start EvilCorporations.com • SEC v. DiMatteo, Komissarov et al. • 59 min read TL;DR Lottery.com (ticker: LTRY) was a struggling startup that couldn’t make payroll in September…
TL;DR Marco Santarelli used his company Norada Capital Management to raise at least $62 million from hundreds of investors across the country, promising safe, stable, retirement-friendly returns of 12–17% per year. Norada’s actual portfolio was stuffed with bankrupt retailers’ intellectual…
TL;DR Michael G. Hull and Christopher J. Nohl raised $52.78 million (enough to pay the annual grocery bills of roughly 1,300 American families) from 129 ordinary investors across 10 states — then used fake valuations, inflated rocks and a bankrupt…
Fraud Exposed He Called It a Hedge Fund. It Was a Lie Built on a Fake SEC Seal. EvilCorporations.com • Case 7:25-cv-01603-ACA, U.S. District Court, N.D. Alabama • 17 min read TL;DR From January 2019 through March 2023, Pathyam Patel…
Financial Fraud · SEC Enforcement · Investor Justice The SEC Waited 24 Years. Then Let Him Walk on Penalties. EvilCorporations.com Investigative Desk · September 2025 TL;DR James R. Harrold and his web of shell companies ran a fraud scheme. The…
TL;DR Joseph Neal Sanberg, co-founder of the “green” fintech company Aspiration Partners, ran a two-year scheme to fabricate $44 million (enough to fully fund a mid-sized public school district for a year) in fake revenue using friends, small businesses, and…
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…