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Focus Financial Associates Inc., Focus Development Center Inc.
Max Francois, Aiby Pierre-Louis, Jean Fritz Montinard
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- Company / entity
- Focus Financial Associates Inc., Focus Development Center Inc.
- Industry
- Twelve-month term notes purportedly funding Haitian-American businesses (airline, tax prep, chiropractic, landscaping, auto dealer/repair)
- How investors were recruited
- Haitian-American community in Miami via local radio programs and presentations to Haitian-American church congregations
- Pitch & red flags
- Guaranteed 15-20% annual returns; pitched as creating jobs and investing in their own community
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