EB-5 Visa Litigation: Regulatory & Investor Actions, Court Documents & Related News

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Nadim Ahmed, a New York-based businessman and his companies, NuRide Transportation Group, LLC and NYC Green Transportation Group, LLC, with...

1. This suit arises from the (i) deceitful and fraudulent actions of Defendants to cheat Plaintiffs out of EB-5 investments—totaling approximately $12 million—that Plaintiffs made with Defendants;...

Plaintiffs are part of a group of Chinese nationals who, in or around 2015, each paid $550,000 to Defendants Robinson and Golden State Regional Center to obtain membership interests in...

A. USCIS’s Motion to Dismiss The APA permits federal courts to compel agency action “unlawfully withheld or unreasonably delayed.” 5 U.S.C. § 706(1). Whether agency action is unreasonably delayed...

In 2015, Zhao and Qiao, who are both now 53, were charged in a federal grand jury indictment with "conspiracy to commit immigration fraud and international transport of stolen funds, as well as...

WHEREAS, Patrick Hogan and CMB Export, LLC ("Respondents") on December 27, 2019, executed a certain Stipulation to enter into a Consent Order Of Prohibition (''Stipulation"), which hereby is...

Teresa Chiu and Daniel Hsieh, a married couple from Ontario, invested $500,000 with a Santa Clara County couple ostensibly putting together a development project under the EB-5 program, their suit...

The EB-5 program, created by the U.S. Congress in 1990, offers EB-5 visas to foreign individuals who invest $500,000 in a new enterprise located in a rural area or an area of high development. On...

COMPLAINT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF SOUGHT Plaintiff Florida EB5 Investments, LLC (“EB5 Investments”) seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against Defendants, the Acting Secretary of the Department of...

13 Chinese investors who put their money into the $375 million Solaris project in Vail claim they’ve been defrauded and are suing the developer, Peter Knobel, and his Colorado...

Dozens of Chinese citizens who handed over more than a half-million dollars each to a Santa Clara County businesswoman as investments that would qualify them for green cards under a controversial...

Lela Goren seeks relief in the form of an order compelling the Extell New York Regional Center to make available to the Plaintiff, for inspection and copying, books and records as demanded by...

A  federal grand jury has criminally charged former Jay Peak developers Bill Stenger and Ariel Quiros in a 14-count indictment. Federal prosecutors allege Quiros, Stenger and two other...

A summons filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court by developer Lela Goren claims that Barnett and the Extell New York Regional Center breached their fiduciary duty and engaged in fraud. Until...

Developers and former managers of Asian-themed Lucky Dragon casino-hotel that was built, open for a year, closed and recently sold in Las Vegas are now facing investor lawsuits....

Jay Peak receiver Michael Goldberg has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the Receivership Entities (the many Jay Peak-related developments) alleging legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty...

Defendants published false and defamatory statements about Litowitz in a document which they filed in the Northern District of Illinois in he case of Makhsous V. Mastroianni et al. Those...

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced fraud charges against an Oakland, Calif.-based businessman accused of misusing money he raised from investors through the EB-5 immigrant investor...

Plaintiff Tingzi Wang, a Chinese national, sought a visa for entry into the United States through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, which grants legal resident status to qualified foreign...

PNC Bank and a Boynton Beach vice president are the latest to be pulled into litigation alleging EB-5 investment fraud on an unfinished Palm Beach project. The Pittsburgh-based bank eased...

Foreign investors who claim they were duped into putting $12 million into a Fort Lauderdale hotel project in exchange for green cards again are suing to reclaim their funds, this time in...

FOR CAUSE REMOVAL MUST BE FOR CAUSE In A&J Capital, Inc. v. Law Office of Krug, Civil Action No. 2018-0240-JRS (Del. Ch. January 29, 2019), the Delaware Court of Chancery granted an LLC...

Nearly two years after a proposed Gold Coast hotel/condominium was not given city approval to proceed, an attorney for a group of 90 Chinese investors has filed a motion in United States District...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate that ceaseand-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 8A of the Securities Act of 1933 (“...

Plaintiffs are nine Chinese foreign investors who participated in the U.S. Government’s EB-5 investor immigration program (“EB-5 Program”) to obtain lawful permanent resident status in...

Plaintiffs U.S. Immigration Fund LLC, U.S. Immigration Fund-NY LLC, 701 TSQ 1000 Funding, LLC, 701 TSQ 1000 Funding GP, LLC, by and through their attorneys, Otterbourg P.C., as and for their...

Seventy-eight Chinese investors have filed a complaint against Nicholas Mastroianni II, alleging the Jupiter developer and EB-5 fundraiser attempted to defraud them of almost $100 million in EB-5...

According to the SEC’s order, from 2011 to 2015, 37 entities affiliated with CMB Export LLC offered EB-5 securities in the form of limited partnership interests without registering them with...

I. The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate that ceaseand-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934...

Plaintiff Securities and Exchange Commission alleges: INTRODUCTION 1. The Commission brings this action against Palm House Hotel LLLP ("PHH"), South Atlantic Regional Center, LLC ("SARC"), Joseph...

COMPLAINT FOR RESCISSION             Plaintiff is a Chinese citizen who is a limited partner in a fund that is sponsored, managed and...

The complaint alleges the following : PARTIES Plaintiff Feng WANG (“Mr. Feng Wang”) is a citizen of the People’s Republic of China (“China”). Mr. Feng Wang invested $500,000 in an EB-5...

The EB-5 creditors bring this adversary proceeding to recover money damages against the parent company of the Debtor, Mezzanine Borrower, and the principals of Mezzanine Borrower, Parello,...

Important Note: the plantiffs have filed this request to amend the original complaint (Case #101) to include these named defendants but the judge has not yet ruled on this request.   A....

In a petition filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, investors (petitioners) pushed to stop the U.S. Immigration Fund (USIF), 701 TSQ 1000 Funding GP, LLC, and their principal, Nicholas Mastroianni...

A group of Jay Peak investors is suing two Vermont lawyers, contending the attorneys had a conflict of interest. Edward Carroll and Mark Scribner, formerly of Carroll & Scribner, represented...

A Downtown Los Angeles EB-5 investment firm has fired back at allegations from a former business partner that it cut him out of business profits involving a project at the Ace Hotel in New York....

NYCRC contends that, though it received all of the benefits of Wailian’s performance under the parties’ agreements, NYCRC need not payWailian the nearly $9 million it earned under those...

Ten Taiwanese investors who poured millions of dollars into a real estate development project in Florida sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in D.C. federal court, alleging the...

A trio of Chinese investors is suing a California family - attorney Victoria Chan, her father Tat Chan, and mother Zheng Chan, along with Zeng Fang, who ran an entity called the California...

The plaintiff, LA Metropolis Condo I LLC, claims James Krug convinced EB-5 investors and financial services firm A&J Capital that he had taken over management of the program at the Downtown...

Beginning not later than 2011 and continuing until at least May 2015, defendant ISAAC BENJAMIN VOSS ("VOSS"), in the District of Oregon and elsewhere, defrauded investors out of approximately $3...

Palm Beach developer Robert Matthews and real estate attorney Leslie R. Evans have been charged with fraud for their involvement in a real estate scam that swindled $50 million from about 50...

Plaintiffs are compelled to bring this action because Defendants have breached their contractual obligations, circumvented and undermined their agreements with Plaintiffs and induced Plaintiffs to...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted...

Las Olas Ocean Resort, a hotel project on Fort Lauderdale beach that attracted funds from hopeful Chinese immigrants through the EB-5 visa program, has been targeted for foreclosure. The Bancorp...

Kang is a “Chinese investor who is seeking a legal path to U.S. residency.” She alleges that Defendants Sophie Harrison, Shengrun International Industry Group, Inc., Sino-USA Entrepreneur...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate that ceaseand-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of...

This action arises from disputes between members of a joint venture involved in the business of marketing federally-approved EB-5 projects to potential immigrant investors, primarily in Asia. As...

The SEC claims Defendant Steve Qi (“Qi”) and his law firm, Law Offices of Steve Qi & Associates, A Professional Corporation (“Law Offices of Qi”) received transaction based compensation for...

Sixty Chinese nationals who invested in the SLS Hotel & Casino Las Vegas are suing the casino resort, claiming that none of the promises made to them during its development phase materialized....

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham are facing a $17 million fraud lawsuit from Chinese investors in Greentech...

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham are facing a $17 million fraud lawsuit from Chinese investors in Greentech...

Plaintiffs on behalf of them and others file a class action lawsuit against the Vermont Regional Center and others

This matter concerns two fraudulent securities offerings carried out by 18 Edward Chen, his wife, Jean Chen, and several entities they control. In doing so, 19 they have misappropriated millions...

This case involves misrepresentations and the misappropriation of millions of dollars of investor funds by defendant Ronald Van Den Heuvel. He took advantage of investors who believed that they...

Pursuant to the Joint Stipulation of the parties, and good cause being shown thereby, it is hereby ORDERED that Counter-claimant Hu & Associates, LLC’s Shoumin Zhang v. American Franchise...

A company that provided financing for a Deadwood hotel and casino through South Dakota's embattled investment-for-visa program is trying to recover $32.5 million loaned to a group of developers...

Wei Wang, Guangyi Xiong and Xiaofeng Feng are making various claims, including malpractice and breach of contract, by attorney Jianming Shen and the Shen Law firm, records in U.S. District Court...

Vieira’s lawsuit maintains Anthony Korda was never licensed to practice law in either Florida or Vermont. The Korda Law firm website says he is admitted to practice law in California and also...

Defendants admit that Plaintiff purports to bring this action under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Defendants deny that Plaintiff is entitled to any of the relief requested in the Complaint....

Pursuant to the request of the parties and Local Rule 7-2, this matter is referred to a settlement conference to be scheduled by, and conducted before, Chief Magistrate Judge Spero at the earliest...

American Logistics International LLC filed suit in D.C. federal court against the Department of Homeland Security, alleging that the agency has capriciously chosen to deny EB-5 investor visas to...

Plaintiffs, George L. Olsen ("Olsen") and Empire Gateway, LLC ("Empire"), by theirattorneys, Heller, Horowitz & Feit, P.C. as and for their Complaint against defendant SandraDyche. On or about...

Through the activities alleged in this Complaint, the Defendants, directly or indirectly, have engaged in transactions, acts, practices or courses of business which constitute violations of...

Plaintiffs are unsophisticated Chinese nationals, most of whom neither speak nor read English. They sought out the American dream -- the opportunity for them and their family to live, go to school...

Lion's Property brings this action to recover the compensation to which it is entitled under a Referral Agreement between it and Defendant NYCRC, and to compensate it for the damages created by...

Although Muroff invested some of the money raised through the Funds for the purposes described in the offering materials—a real estate development and gold mining ventures—Muroff, through...

Starting in or about 2008 and continuing to the present, Victoria Chan ("Victoria"), California attorney, and her father Tat Chan ("TAT"), a foreign national, have defrauded the United States by...

George Heaton, Deborah Dentry Baggett and Eric Granitur did willfully, that is, with the intent to further the object of the conspiracy, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate and agree with...

George Heaton, Deborah Dentry Baggett and Eric Granitur did willfully, that is, with the intent to further the object of the conspiracy, and knowingly combine, conspire, confederate and agree with...

Defendants Andy Shin Fong Chen (“Chen”) and Aero Space Port International Group, Inc. (“ASPI”) (collectively, “Defendants”) fraudulently raised over $14.5 million from investors in exchange for...

Plaintiff, Jane Doe, filed a 13-count complaint, challenging the United States Immigration and Citizenship Service (“USCIS”) decision denying her I-526 petition to obtain an EB-5 immigrant investor...

This is an action that Plaintiffs assert against Defendants for breach of contract, unjust enrichment/quantum meruit, gross negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, fraud, conspiracy,...

In a federal lawsuit, an investment group accuses Maple Street Investors of misusing $25 million loaned to North Canton's Hoover District project. Maple Street denies those claims.

Plaintiff Alan Young (“Young”) filed a motion to remand this action back to the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Alameda. Plaintiff asked that the Motion be heard...

From in or about March 2009, through in or about December 2015, in Hamilton County, Columbia County and Orange County, in the Middle District of Florida, and elsewhere,KARAMCHAND DOOBAY, a/k/a...

Instead, Ogden used investor funds for various undisclosed purposes, including funding lawsuit settlements and loans unrelated to AJN, paying management fees to Seekem, Inc. (the Ogden-controlled...

Defendant Emilio Francisco and his company Defendant PDC Capital Group, LLC, have engaged in an ongoing fraudulent scheme to defraud at least 131 investors in 19 different offerings out of at...

This action seeks to remedy the unreasonable and unjustifiable delay by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS” or “the agency”) in adjudicating the Form I-526, “Immigrant Petition...

Plaintiff RAMSEY PIMENTEL, and other similarly situated individuals, by and through the undersigned counsel, hereby sues Defendants, ASTOR EB-5 LLC, a Florida Limited Liability Company, d/b/a...

Plaintiff, Live in America – New York Regional Center LLC (“the “Regional Center” or “LIANYRC”), is a U.S. company, previously designated as an approved regional center by the United States...

Plaintiffs are the victims of a $50,000,000 fraud, theft, and conspiracy, in which a web of individuals, primarily based in Palm Beach County, Florida, preyed on foreign nationals desirous of...

This action is brought against the Defendants for declaratory judgment and review of an agency action under the Administrative Procedures Act based on the Defendants' unlawful denial of the I-526...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate that cease-and-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate that cease-and-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“Commission”) deems it appropriate that cease-and-desist proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to 21C of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“...

Nicholas Mastroianni II, chief executive of Allied Capital and Development of South Florida and the public face of Harbourside, is in a legal war with a lesser-known figure: David Finkelstein,...

This is an action by qui tam Realtor Emma Tirella, on behalf of the United States of America, against Defendant KLAUSNER LUMBER ONE, LLC ("KL1"), to recover penalties and damages arising from...

As part of LIGTT’s petition for designation as a Regional Center, USCIS required LIGTT to submit various documents regarding its business and project plans, as well as various transactional...

This action is brought to remedy the unlawful, unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious delay by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS” or “the agency”) in adjudicating the Form...

The plaintiff in this immigration case, Urban Equality NOW seeks mandamus, declaratory, and injunctive relief from the Court based on broad challenges it makes to Defendants’ administration and...

Plaintiffs’ opposition relies on the application of a much higher standard of review than is permitted under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) and seeks an improper limit on agency...

At various times, certain U.S. immigration attorneys and others (collectively “EB- 5 Agents”) performed activities necessary to effectuate transactions in American Life’s EB-5 securities,...

This case involves an ongoing fraudulent scheme perpetrated by defendant Charles C. Liu (“Liu”) and his wife, defendant Xin Wang, a/k/a Lisa Wang (“Wang”), to defraud Chinese investors in the...

The Receiver brings this action1 in his capacity as Receiver for the Receivership Entities to recover amounts stolen from the Receivership Entities and misused by Quiros, owner of Q Resorts, and...

Plaintiffs James B. Shaw, Johannes Eijmberts and Lome Morris ("Plaintiffs"), individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, allege the following against Raymond James Financial,...

COMPLAINT against Nicholas Colucci, Jeh Johnson, Leon Rodriguez, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (Filing Fee $ 400.00, Receipt Number 0208- 12176120)Document filed by Siddarth Ramesh...

By this action, Mr. Hiller seeks to impose liability under federal securities law and state common law upon the defendants who knowingly designed the financial structure of a fraudulent scheme for...

Plaintiff Alexandre Daccache brings this action on behalf of a class of all investors in Jay Peak limited partnerships to recover funds misused, commingled, and stolen by Quiros and Stenger with...

This civil action seeks judicial review of final agency decisions that plaintiffs have failed to establish eligibility for classification as alien entrepreneurs under 203(b)(5)(A) of the...

Mr. Zhang filed his Form I-526 petition on December 23, 2013 (receipt no. WAC1490085382), and USCIS denied the petition on May 28, 2015. The denial of Mr. Zhang’s Form I-526 petition has had...

The State of Vermont make a following complaint against Ariel Quiros, William Stenger, Jay Peak etc. for violation of the Vermont Uniform Securities Act and the Consumer Protection Act

This is an emergency action the Commission is bringing to stop an ongoing massive eight-year fraudulent scheme in which the Miami owner and the chief executive of a Vermont ski resort have...

A film and TV production company urged a Georgia federal judge on Tuesday not to impose sanctions in a now-dismissed $45 million lawsuit alleging former NBA player Theo Ratliff and others...

ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS AND A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS AND A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS AND A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS AND A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS AND A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS AND A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

ORDER INSTITUTING CEASE-AND-DESIST PROCEEDINGS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 21C OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS AND A CEASE-AND-DESIST ORDER

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a series of enforcement actions against lawyers across the country charged with offering EB-5 investments while not registered to act as...

U.S. authorities moved to freeze the assets Thursday of a California doctor, an office manager and businesses accused of plundering at least $10 million from funds marketed to Chinese investors in...

In a civil action filed by the SEC against EB5 Asset Manager, LLC and its owner Lin Zhong in the United States District Court of Southern Florida on November 3, 2015 the SEC alleges that since at...

Dalia Ivette Singh, aka Dalia Pena, 61, who most recently resided in Clearwater, Florida, defrauded more than 40 immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin America. Singh charged some families as much...

Here, the 19 individual Plaintiffs are citizens of different Asian countries who participated in the EB-5 Program. In their complaint, Plaintiffs allege 1) improper retroactive application of the...

Plaintiffs Marzieh Adab, Ian Bowles, Bei Guo, Mohammad Saeid Khorram, David Lawler, and Jing Zhang filed this action on June 16, 2014. Dkt. No. 1. (“Compl.”). Plaintiffs assert claims against the...

This is an action for breach of contract and fraud. Plaintiff was induced to invest her life savings with Defendants in reliance on Defendants' promises that (a) the investment is guaranteed, and...

Defendants are alleged to have created a scheme to induce the Plaintiffs to deliver funds to Defendants, which funds were allegedly not used for the intended investment purposes and were instead...

Over at least the past four years, federal investigators say Stephen Young Kang took millions of dollars from Korean clients who asked him to invest their money and instead used it for his own...

The owner of the iconic Tribune Tower and several other downtown Oakland office buildings is facing a lawsuit from a business partner accusing him of diverting funds from their enterprise to help...

SEC asserts that the defendants have exploited the EB-5 program to defraud investors seeking investment returns and a path to United States residency. To date, SEC asserts that Defendants have...

The plaintiff claims that : Lorenzana Jr., the Aurrecoecheas and other Defendants had almost completely squandered and misappropriated Monarch’s investment for their personal gain over the past...

The long-delayed Palm House hotel condominium is not only embroiled in an internal ownership dispute but also is in foreclosure proceedings, court documents show. The foreclosure complaint centers...

This case arises out of a contractual investment relationship. Plaintiff contends that he agreed to invest over $1 million into a partnership in exchange for Defendants’ assistance in helping him...

The South Dakota Board of Regents said Friday that a California arbitrator has denied its attempt to recover attorney fees and costs in a lawsuit related to the state's EB-5 investment-for-green...

An investment firm specializing in helping wealthy foreigners buy into American public projects to secure green cards has sued Washington state claiming Chinese investors were unfairly cut out of...

Action for forfeiture in rem of the defendant Sang Ah Park's Limited Partnership interest in the Philadelphia US Immigration Fund, a fund created and overseen by PIDC Regional Center. Park's...

Nicholas Mastroianni II, chief executive of Allied Capital and Development of South Florida and the public face of Harbourside, is in a legal war with a lesser-known figure: David Finkelstein,...

Zhao argues that the denial of his Petition violated the Administrative Procedures Act, and requests that the Court direct the Government to approve his Petition. On September 26, 2012, USCIS...

A group of dissatisfied investors brought this lawsuit as a derivative action, brought on behalf of the Fund, against NOR, Mr. Hungerford, Mr. Milbrath, and a number of other entities, including...

Steven Lee, a former immigrant investor who received an EB-5 visa years ago and who is now a United States citizen, formed Plaintiff V Real Estate Group, Inc. (“VREG”) as a franchising enterprise...

This case involves a scheme perpetrated by two immigration attorneys. The SEC filed suit for defrauding Chinese and Korean investors claiming that their monies would be invested in a program that...

On September 13, 2012, plaintiffs Courtney Carlsson, et al., filed the instant complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief against defendants United States Citizenship and Immigration Services...

Al-Humaid asserts at length in his briefing that the decisions of USCIS and AAO are not entitled to any judicial deference by the court, citing United States Supreme Court case law in support....

The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Bay Area oil and gas company and its CEO with running a $68 million Ponzi-like scheme and affinity fraud that targeted the Chinese-American...

The former Chief Financial Officer of SolarMax Technology, Inc. - a renewable energy conglomerate located in Riverside, CA - has filed a lawsuit against the company and several of its directors...

Dozens of Chinese investors who poured millions of dollars into an Idaho mining operation have filed suit against U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, alleging the agency unfairly determined...

The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two firms that illegally brokered more than $79 million of investments by foreigners seeking U.S. residency. The charges are the first against...

A U.S. District Court judge today is expected to hear arguments over the issuance of $1.75 billion in tax-exempt bonds for All Aboard Florida. Indian River and Martin counties have asked Judge...

In the case, SEC v. Marco A. Ramirez, et al., the SEC and USCIS worked together to stop an alleged investment scam in which the SEC claims that the defendants, including the USA Now regional...

In another case, SEC v. A Chicago Convention Center, et al., the SEC and USCIS coordinated to halt an alleged $156 million investment fraud. The SEC alleged that an individual and his companies...