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Titanium Blockchain CEO Pleads Guilty in $21M Crypto Fraud Case
Legal // July 25, 2022

Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure’s (TBIS) CEO, Michael Alan Stollery, pleaded guilty Friday (July 22) for his role in a crypto fraud scheme in which he used investor funds for his own purposes, a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ) said Monday. The scheme had...

Goldman Sachs Denied Dismissal Of Class-Action Lawsuit Over Subprime Mortgages
Legal // April 07, 2020

A Manhattan court denied Goldman Sachs Group’s appeal to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that accuses the investment bank of hiding information when it created subprime securities prior to the Great Recession, according to a report in Reuters. In a 2-1 decision on Tuesday (April 7),...

Metro Bank Hit By More Fraud Probes
B2B Payments // May 31, 2019

Two U.S. law firms have launched investigations into the U.K.’s Metro Bank on behalf of investors concerned that the institution committed securities fraud. Reports in The Guardian on Thursday (May 30) said Pomerantz and Levi & Korsinsky, both based in New York, have opened these...

Shares In Jumia Technologies Tumble After Q1 Results
Investments // May 13, 2019

Shares in African eCommerce company Jumia Technologies took a dive on Monday (May 13) after Q1 losses were reported to be bigger than the year before, according to a report from Bloomberg. The results are the company’s first after going public, and come after Citron...

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FBI: GameOn Founder Cheated AI Investors Out of $60 Million

January 26, 2025
The founder of artificial intelligence (AI) firm GameOn has been charged with defrauding his company’s investors. The FBI last week charged Alexander Beckman, the company’s former CEO, with offenses including conspiracy, wire fraud, securities fraud and identity theft. Also charged was Valerie Lau Beckman, who is married to the founder and also worked as an […]

Titanium Blockchain CEO Pleads Guilty in $21M Crypto Fraud Case

July 25, 2022
Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure’s (TBIS) CEO, Michael Alan Stollery, pleaded guilty Friday (July 22) for his role in a crypto fraud scheme in which he used investor funds for his own...

Goldman Sachs Denied Dismissal Of Class-Action Lawsuit Over Subprime Mortgages

April 07, 2020
A Manhattan court denied Goldman Sachs Group’s appeal to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that accuses the investment bank of hiding information when it created subprime securities prior to the Great...

Shares In Jumia Technologies Tumble After Q1 Results

May 13, 2019
Shares in African eCommerce company Jumia Technologies took a dive on Monday (May 13) after Q1 losses were reported to be bigger than the year before, according to a report...