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Cases / Investment funds & advisory

Richard Elkinson

ReportedJan 5, 2010
LocationFramingham, MA
Amount$29,000,000

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Industry
Promissory notes funding purported police and prison uniform contracts from a Japanese manufacturer
How investors were recruited
Solicited about 130 investors to buy promissory notes
Pitch & red flags
Notes paying "9 percent to 13 percent" interest over 330-360 days; claimed banks would not lend on unexecuted contracts; offered rollover of principal and interest into new notes

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Source

FBI official

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