Month: November 2009

Post-Madoff, the SEC seems to have brought an almost endless stream of Ponzi scheme cases. The once virtually impossible-to-detect frauds appear to be surfacing everywhere. When that happens, the SEC and at times DOJ and the CFTC, have been there …

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The SEC filed two cases yesterday stemming from an alleged financial fraud at Tvia, Inc., a Silicon Valley semiconductor company. One was against Benjamin Silva, III, the former Vice President of World Wide Sales at the company. SEV v. Silva, …

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