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The law firm of Gana Weinstein LLP is investigating the Oppenheimer Global Resource Private Equity Fund.  In August 2013, the SEC began investigating the Oppenheimer Global Resource Private Equity Fund for misleading investors about the valuation and performance of the fund. According to the SEC, the fund manager, Brian Williamson was barred from the industry and fined $100,000 for overstating the value of the fund’s holdings by over 18%. Williamson is a resident of Newtown, Pennsylvania. Williamson was an Oppenheimer employee from 2005 through 2011. In March 2013, the SEC also charged two investment advisers with misleading investors about the valuation and performance of the fund. The SEC order found that the Oppenheimer employees made the following misrepresentations to its clients:

1. That the increase in the funds value was due to performance when in fact it was due to a new valuation method;

2. That a third-party valuation firm wrote up the valuation; and

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