SEC Charges Adviser with Fraud

Posted on September 9th, 2020 at 11:32 AM
SEC Charges Adviser with Fraud

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged Sperry and Sons Capital Investments, LLC, and its principal, Kirk Sperry, with defrauding investors relating to a real estate investment project.

According to the SEC, between September and December 2015, Sperry raised $125,000 from two investors for a real estate project in Williston, North Dakota. The SEC alleged that Sperry used false and misleading statements when soliciting the investments. Specifically, Sperry misrepresented that the investment was secured by a first position mortgage on the property and also misrepresented that purchase agreements were already in place for certain lots, when neither of those were true, according to the SEC. The SEC alleged that Sperry and Sons used investor funds to make payments to investors in other, unrelated projects.

The SEC is seeking a permanent injunction, disgorgement, prejudgment interest and civil penalties. The firm is charged with violations of the antifraud provisions of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Sperry is charged with violations of Sections 17(a)(1) and 17(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and aiding and abetting the firm’s violation of Section 17(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933.

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