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Cases / Investment funds & advisory

Health Care Financial Partners

Maxwell B. Smith III

ReportedNov 17, 2009
LocationFair Haven, NJ
Amount$9,000,000

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Company / entity
Health Care Financial Partners
Industry
Fraudulent debt securities of a sham health care financing company
How investors were recruited
Sold to individual clients he had from his earlier financial services positions.
Pitch & red flags
Promised "yearly dividend interest of between 7.5 and 9 percent", said to be tax-free, like municipal bonds; gave a phony prospectus claiming holdings over $300 million.

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Source

FBI official

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