According to an SEC order, employees of Senvest Management, which oversees $3 billion in assets, repeatedly discussed company business in personal texts and other “off-channel” platforms in violation of federal securities laws.
Retired Dallas FBI Agent’s Accomplice in Bizarre ‘Secret Probation’ Scam Gets 70 Months
Joseph DeLeon, who helped former FBI agent Bill Stone cheat a Granbury woman out of more than $750,000, apologized and said he, too, was a victim of the grift. But U.S. District Judge Ada Brown was having none of it.
As FW Trial Begins, Tax Preparer Pleads to $2.6M Scam
Federal investigators said Anthony Floyd of Kennedale, Texas, would tweak tax returns he prepared for clients, causing the government to overpay refunds, which he then pocketed.
Judge Twice Rebukes Ex-Associate Suing Berg & Androphy During Contentious Testimony
The unusual admonition from the bench came on the third and final day of testimony in Justin Pfeiffer’s breach-of-contract suit against Berg & Androphy, his former employer.
‘I Wanted Him Gone,’ Berg & Androphy Co-Founder Testifies in Suit by Ex-Associate
David Berg says Justin Pfeiffer, who has sued for $32,000 in back pay, was “not trustworthy and an embarrassment” to Berg’s firm. Pfeiffer claims he wasn’t “fully relieved” of his duties at Berg & Androphy until November 2018, two months after he agreed to resign, when he filed a motion to withdraw as counsel in California in cases where he was a lawyer of record, and that motion was granted.
Houston Trial Begins Over Wage Claim by ‘Unhinged’ Former Berg & Androphy Lawyer
Plaintiff Justin Pfeiffer says he’s owed $32,000 plus legal fees stemming from his 2018 resignation from the Houston law firm. Berg & Androphy says Pfeiffer is a “vexatious litigant” who “harasses all whom he claims have wronged him.”
Pharma Marketer Guilty in $60 Million Fraud and Kickback Scheme
Quintan Cockerell was paid millions to steer doctors to write expensive, often needless, prescriptions to two Fort Worth pharmacies, federal investigators said. After a week of testimony and four days of deliberations, a jury in the court of U.S. District Judge Karen Gren Scholer agreed on Thursday.
‘Marketing’ or ‘Bribery’? Closing Arguments in Federal Pharma Fraud Trial in Dallas
The defense lawyer for Quintan Cockerell says he did nothing illegal by telling doctors they should consider using the costly medications prepared by 2 pharmacies that paid Cockerell millions of dollars. The government says he was taking kickbacks for inducing doctors to send prescriptions to the pharmacies.
Ex-Wife of Pharmacy Marketer Testifies She Was Paid Lavishly for Doing Nothing
Kristin Najarian said her former husband, Quintan Cockerell, arranged for her to be put on the payroll of a Fort Worth pharmacy that, according to federal prosecutors, paid Cockerell millions of dollars in kickbacks. In one month alone, she said, she was paid $711,706.47 even though “I wasn’t working there.”
Pharmacy Marketer Accused of Taking Kickbacks in Criminal Trial
The co-owner of two Fort Worth pharmacies testified in federal court that Quintan Cockerell made “millions a month” by steering doctors to send in thousands of prescriptions for costly compounded medicines.