N.Y.-Based Fund And Three Employees Accused of Defrauding Investors
From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law Offices:
According the SEC, VERO Capital Management and its president Robert Geiger, general counsel George Barbaresi, and chief financial officer Steven Downey operated a pair of funds represented to have a goal of investing primarily in mortgage-backed securities.
However, the fund liquidated investor money. Therefore, the three officers diverted $4.4 million to make “bridge loans” to an affiliated company allegedly in the risk management business. The SEC accuses the defendants of failing to disclose to investors that they were making those loans and, as a result, that the loans were not authorized.
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