The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged a private fund manager in a federal district court in Alabama with defrauding approximately 70 domestic and international investors from whom he raised at least $852,000 of crypto assets.
Renato Mariotti, a partner at Paul Hastings’s investigations and white-collar defense practice in the Am Law 50 firm’s Chicago office, is not involved in the SEC’s three-count fraud lawsuit against the defendant, James O. Ward, Jr., head of marketing for Apex Financial Institute Pvt. Ltd.
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