{"id":51907,"date":"2016-03-18T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51907"},"modified":"2016-03-18T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T13:29:24","slug":"sec-accuses-aequitas-of-operating-a-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/sec-accuses-aequitas-of-operating-a-ponzi-scheme.html","title":{"rendered":"SEC Accuses Aequitas of Operating a Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Alts) The Securities and Exchange Commission (\u201cSEC\u201d) has charged Aequitas Management and four subsidiaries of defrauding more than 1,500 investors nationwide and enlisting them in a \u201cPonzi scheme.\u201d Aequitas and its affiliated entities have agreed to a preliminary enjoinment against raising additional funds by offering and selling securities. The firm has also agreed to the appointment of a receiver to \u201cmarshal and preserve\u201d remaining Aequitas assets for distribution to its allegedly defrauded investors.<\/p>\n<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission (\u201cSEC\u201d) has charged Aequitas Management and four subsidiaries of defrauding more than 1,500 investors nationwide and enlisting them in a \u201cPonzi scheme.\u201d Aequitas and its affiliated entities have agreed to a preliminary enjoinment against raising additional funds by offering and selling securities. The firm has also agreed to the appointment of a receiver to \u201cmarshal and preserve\u201d remaining Aequitas assets for distribution to its allegedly defrauded investors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailyalts.com\/sec-accuses-aequitas-of-operating-a-ponzi-scheme\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Daily Alts) The Securities and Exchange Commission (\u201cSEC\u201d) has charged Aequitas Management and four subsidiaries of defrauding more than 1,500 investors nationwide and enlisting them in a \u201cPonzi scheme.\u201d Aequitas and its affiliated entities have agreed to a preliminary enjoinment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51908,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51907\/revisions\/51908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}