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Cases / Lending & cash advance

Alliance Group Entertainment

Mahmoud Karkehabadi (aka Mike Karkeh)

ReportedAug 25, 2010
LocationLaguna Niguel, CA
Amount$11,000,000

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Company / entity
Alliance Group Entertainment
Industry
Movie production loans (B-movie films)
How investors were recruited
Through California-based agents (Timothy Cho and Deanna Salazar)
Pitch & red flags
Promised returns of 18 to 35%; repayment within one year "regardless of a project's success"; sold securities "under the guise of a loan"

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Source

oag.ca.gov official

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