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Cases / Investment funds & advisory

Summit Asset Strategies

Chris Young Yoo

ReportedMar 20, 2017
LocationBellevue, WA
Amount$3,660,216

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Company / entity
Summit Asset Strategies
Industry
Investment funds investing primarily in South Korea
How investors were recruited
His investment-advisory clients; targeted those "he thought he could manipulate" and urged them to invest life savings, some selling homes or draining retirement accounts
Pitch & red flags
promised to invest clients' money "in funds he managed"; sent "fake account statements" showing them invested

Pitch phrases from this case

Source

U.S. Department of Justice official

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