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SEC Charges Paralegal with Municipal Securities Violations

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Wednesday that it has charged and settled a case against an Edinburg paralegal-turned-registered municipal advisor accused of defrauding a South Texas school district involving multiple municipal bond offerings.

The SEC’s Fort Worth Regional Office claims that Mario Hinojosa and the municipal advisory firm he owned and operated, Barcelona Strategies, misrepresented to La Joya Independent School District officials their professional experience in handling municipal bonds and failed to disclose key conflicts of interests to their client.

Mark Curriden

Mark Curriden is a lawyer/journalist and founder of The Texas Lawbook. In addition, he is a contributing legal correspondent for The Dallas Morning News.

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