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Cases / Investment funds & advisory

Gregory Viola

ReportedAug 11, 2011
LocationOrange, CT
Amount$6,000,000

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Industry
Purported brokerage investments
How investors were recruited
His tax-preparation clients and their referrals; found investors "based on referrals from existing investors rather than through any form of advertising"
Pitch & red flags
Promised "a specified rate of return on the investments as well as the potential for the investment to appreciate"; fake E-Trade account statements

Source

FBI official

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