GPB Ponzi | Investment News | Bruce Kelly | Nov 6, 2019 Attorneys say investment firm's returns to investors came from new investors, not from business operations. Self-dealing, conflicts of interest and operating a Ponzi scheme were at the heart of GPB Capital Holdings and its ability to raise...
Madoff All Over Again? Whistleblower’s “Smoking Gun” Analysis of GPB Capital Scheme Was Contained in Files Indicted Ex-SEC Official Is Alleged to Have Spirited Away to GPB Capital; Law Firms Filing Class-Action Lawsuit in Texas to Recover Funds Stolen by GPB and Network of “Helpers”. NEW...
GPB Obstruction of Justice | Compliance Week | Jaclyn Jaeger | Wed, Oct 23, 2019 2:44 PM Michael Cohn, who was appointed in January as chief compliance officer at asset management firm GPB Capital Holdings, now faces charges of obstruction of justice, unauthorized computer access, and unauthorized...
GPB, Michael Cohn | The Scientology Money Project | October 26, 2019 The story of former SEC official Michael Cohn having leaked information on the US Government’s criminal investigation into GPB Capital to GPB officials in the weeks before he took a $400,000 job at the...
GPB Capital | Bloomberg | Patricia Hurtado | October 234, 2019 U.S. says theft got him a position as chief compliance officer He accepted $400,000-a-year job four days after he left SEC When Michael Cohn left his job with the enforcement arm of the U.S. Securities and...
Ponzi scheme | New York Law Journal | Jane Wester | October 24, 2019 In a document that was unsealed and later resealed by the court this week, Assistant U.S. Attorney Artie McConnell wrote that GPB seemed to be operating "like a 'Ponzi scheme.'" A former Securities and...
SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission | Think Advisor | Melanie Waddell | October 25, 2019 Before leaving the SEC, Michael Cohn improperly accessed information about an investigation into GPB Capital, the DOJ says. Former Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement staffer Michael Cohn has been indicted for stealing confidential...
Street Insider | October 24, 2019 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Charges filed Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice against Michael Cohn (Cohn), a former GPB Capital Holdings (GPB) executive, are “just the first shoe to drop” and soon will be followed by even starker disclosures, according...
Norwalk Daily Voice | Zak Failla | October 25,2019 A former Securities and Exchange Commission investigator from Fairfield County is facing an obstruction of justice charge for alleged unauthorized computer access and disclosure of confidential information to a firm where he sought a job. Michael Cohn, 59,...
The Press Herald | J. Craig Anderson | October 25,2019 The Saco-based auto dealership chain's lead investor, New York private equity firm GPB Capital Holdings, is under investigation for running an alleged Ponzi scheme. A top official at Saco-based Prime Automotive Group’s majority owner GPB Capital Holdings...