The Guiliano Law Group

09/24/2026

https://www.wealthmanagement.com/regulation-compliance/florida-man-accused-of-defrauding-law-enforcement

The SEC alleges Michael Williams misled investors with fake trading profits while spending funds on luxury cars and jewelry

09/11/2026

The Guiliano Law Group remembers all those who were lost on 9/11 🇺🇸

08/31/2026

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DETROIT – It’s all about fat­ten­ing up someone with flat­tery and false prom­ises right before the slaughter. Sadly, the slaughter in a troub­ling “pig but­cher­ing” scam in Troy, Michigan cost one man roughly half a mil­lion dol­lars. It’s an...

08/14/2026

Ocean County in the News

SEC Charges Toms River Trio in Connection with Alleged $47 Million Fraud Targeting Orthodox Jewish Communities

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged three Toms River, New Jersey residents for their roles in an affinity investment fraud that raised approximately $47 million from more than 87 investors, who were primarily members of Orthodox Jewish communities in New Jersey and New York.

The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal court in the District of New Jersey, alleges that between approximately November 2019 and June 2023, Leor Moshe, the scheme’s orchestrator, convinced investors, most of whom, like Moshe, were active members of the Orthodox Jewish community, to invest in his company, Capital Funding ASAP LLC. Moshe told the would-be investors that their money would be used to fund short-term loans for small businesses and their investments would lead to significant fixed returns. However, rather than funding business loans, Moshe allegedly misappropriated more than $11 million from investors for his personal use and used more than $850,000 for Ponzi-like payments to earlier-in-time investors.

The complaint further alleges that Moshe paid fellow Toms River residents, Jacob Goldman and Isaac Odes, who were not registered as broker-dealers or associated with any registered broker-dealer, to recruit investors. Goldman and Odes solicited more than $23 million from at least 25 investors, negotiated investment terms, and facilitated the collection of funds.

As a result of the scheme, investors from Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Ohio lost more than $25 million.

The SEC’s complaint charges Moshe with violations of the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and charges Goldman and Odes with violations of the broker registration provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The complaint seeks permanent injunctive relief, disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest, and civil penalties against the defendants, and a conduct-based injunction against Moshe.

In a parallel action, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey today announced criminal charges against Moshe for similar conduct.

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08/06/2026

https://bankingjournal.aba.com/2026/08/the-evolution-of-financial-scams/

What a century of fraud can teach banks about the next generation of risk.

07/30/2026

It is not uncommon when stockbrokers, or more descriptively a “crew” of stockbrokers, associated with an expelled or rogue firm jump ship or migrate, en masse, to a new firm, where they continue to ravage, rob and plunder some unsuspecting corn farmer in Illinois.

All they need is a telephone, a list of leads (usually in the form of customer account information that they steal from each other), and have some sort of house chop stock, or thinly traded bond, with a story to peddle to the unsuspecting investment public. Often, or at least sometimes, the real party in interest, or the “owners” of the respective pirate ship/branch offices, is a barred or expelled individual, or even long before the Sopranos, is an alleged, or sometimes even convicted, member of organized crime. Richard H. Walker, Director, Division of Enforcement U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, The Involvement of Organized Crime on Wall Street (September 13, 2000).

It is not just the Italians. One firm in New York, that had been compromised by the Russian Mafia, had more than twenty agents all posing as “Vlad,” the one idiot that was actually registered.

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07/09/2026

Todd Cohen, of Melville, New York, a stockbroker registered with Aegis Capital Corp. is the subject of a customer initiated investment related FINRA securities arbitration claim seeking damages of…

07/04/2026

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06/18/2026

Although there may be a more appropriate word choice than "overhaul," industry propagandist inadvertenly admits that Project 2025, Wall Street special interests, and the fear that FINRA will be subsumed by the SEC, (where the self-regulatory executives might will lose their multi-million dollar paychecks) in connection with the rollback of almost 100 years of investor rights.

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FINRA's arbitration forum handles the vast majority of disputes between investors and broker-dealers. With 3,382 new cases filed in 2023 (a 27% jump from the prior year), the system is busier than ever. And now, Regulatory Notice 26-06 could reshape how those disputes play out.

06/05/2026