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shutterstock_143179897-300x300The law offices of Gana Weinstein LLP continue have represented over 100 investors defrauded in GPB Capital relating investments.  For nearly two years our firm has been filing complaints against the brokerage firms that wrongfully sold these products alleging that GPB Capital has all the tell-tale signs of being a scam.  On February 4, 2021 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York (DOJ), and seven states filed separate simultaneous actions against GPB Capital and other defendants connected to the firm accusing it of being a Ponzi-like scheme.  In a press release the SEC stated that it “charged three individuals and their affiliated entities with running a Ponzi-like scheme that raised over $1.7 billion…”[1]

As reported by Bloomberg “If proved, [GPB] would be one of the largest such schemes to target individual investors since the massive frauds of Bernard Madoff and Robert Allen Stanford came to light.”[2]  The DOJ indicted David Gentile, the founder of GPB, Jeffry Schneider, the owner and CEO of Ascendant Capital LLC, and Jeffrey Lash, a former managing partner of GPB relating to the fraud.  If convicted, the defendants each face up to 20 years’ imprisonment.[3]  New York Attorney General Letitia James accused GPB of “defrauding investors across the country out of more than $700 million through a Ponzi-like scheme that offered to pay investors generous monthly distributions they could never deliver.”[4]  Further, “Investors put in more than $1.8 billion into GPB funds but were left without a single cent of profit,” said Attorney General James.  The fraud was alleged to have been carried out by “failing to disclose numerous conflicted transactions involving related parties, as well as misappropriations of fund assets, all of which served to benefit” GPB and its owners.

Where did investor money go? “Investor funds were spent to subsidize private planes and luxury travel for the three defendants, direct payments totaling millions of dollars into personal bank accounts, and payments to family members. Defendant Gentile even purchased a Ferrari sports car with investor funds.”  Id. Continue Reading

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