SEC Urges Texas Federal Court to Order Two Oil and Gas Companies to Disgorge $17 Million

Posted on October 20th, 2017 at 9:26 AM
SEC Urges Texas Federal Court to Order Two Oil and Gas Companies to Disgorge $17 Million

From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:

The SEC has asked a Texas federal court to order two California companies, Team Resources, Inc. and Fossil Energy Corp. to disgorge $17 million of the proceeds of an alleged fraudulent scheme.

According to the SEC, Team Resources, Fossil Energy, their owner Kevin A. Boyles and his alleged sales associates John Olivia and Michael Eppy, deceived investors into buying interests in their oil and gas limited partnerships when they knew the subject fields had been depleted by other oil companies and few commercially recoverable hydrocarbons remained. Mr. Boyles used his sales associates to solicit investors by touting fantastic production projects, which turned out to be false.

In 2015, the SEC sued the alleged perpetrators over claims that they took in more than $33 million from roughly 475 investors by fraudulently marketing the partnership interests. Eventually, Mr. Boyles, Mr. Olivia and Mr. Eppy agreed to settle the Commission’s claims, agreeing in 2015 and 2016 to injunctions and to pay disgorgement, interest and penalties.

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