Cases / Lending & cash advance
Christopher Burns
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- Company / entity
- Investus Advisers LLC, Investus Financial LLC, Dynamic Money, Peer Connect LLC
- Industry
- Business and charity lending notes (purported low-risk loans to startups)
- How investors were recruited
- Hosted "The Chris Burns Show" investing program on Atlanta radio station 95.5 WSB and gave investment advice on TV, building trust with listeners who became advisory clients
- Pitch & red flags
- Allegedly told investors of "safe investments that would yield high rates of return"; claimed loans were "secured by the protection of collateral and personal guarantees"
Pitch phrases from this case
- “safe investments that would yield high rates of return”
- “secured by the protection of collateral and personal guarantees”
Source
U.S. Department of Justice official
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