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Nov/12

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Roman Sledziejowki Defrauded Fellow Poles $4 mill

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FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, alleges Roman Sledziejowski, the Polish president and owner of TWS Financial, LLC, in Brooklyn, N.Y., used customer funds for his own use and gave false statements to clients from June, 2009, through August, 2012.

FINRA alleges Sledziejowski defrauded three Polish customers of more than $4 million by taking money out of their accounts, and in other cases, having them transfer funds that he said would be invested in a Polish vodka company. Mr. Sledziejowski refused to testify and cooperate with FINRA.

Sledziejowski told one client that his funds were being put into a Polish bank and the stock of a Polish vodka maker, but no such investments were ever made. Two other customers said they didn’t authorize the wire transfers that he made from their accounts to Innovest Holdings, LLC, which Sledziejowski controlled.

“In order to mask his misconduct, Sledziejowski provided customers with falsified account statements or ‘account snapshots,’ which were fictional accounts of their holdings in their TWS brokerage accounts or the values of those accounts,” FINRA said.

Sledziejowski was previously registered with Wachovia Securities LLC, Prudential Securities Inc. and Salomon Smith Barney Inc., according to FINRA’s BrokerCheck. TWS Financial filed to withdraw its broker-dealer registration on Nov. 9th.

If you have invested with Roman Sledziejowki, TWS Financial, LLC, or Innovest Holdings, LLC, and experienced financial losses, call and speak at no charge to a securities attorney who may potentially help you recover those losses. Call: 888-760-6552, or visit our website at: http://www.securitieslawyer.com.

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, representing investors nationwide before FINRA the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

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Jan/12

5

Lloyd V. Barriger, Monticello, New York Investment Adviser, Charged by SEC with Multi-Million Dollar Fraud

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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)  filed a civil injunctive action charging Monticello, New York investment adviser, Lloyd V. Barriger, registered with Barriger & Barriger Incorporated, with fraud in connection with two upstate New York real estate funds he managed – the Gaffken & Barriger Fund, LLC (the G&B Fund or the Fund), and Campus Capital Corp. (Campus) on May 13, 2011. According to the complaint, the G&B Fund raised approximately $20 million from January 1998 until March 2008, and Campus raised approximately $12 million from October 2001 until July 2008.
 
The Commission charged Barriger with defrauding the funds and their investors and prospective investors to whom he offered and sold interests in these funds.
The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that from at least July 2006 until March 5, 2008, when he froze the Fund and disclosed to investors its true financial condition, Barriger defrauded investors and prospective investors in the G&B Fund by misrepresenting that the Fund was a relatively safe and liquid investment that paid a minimum “Preferred Return” of 8% per year.
 
Futher, the complaint alleges that Barriger made these misrepresentations knowing, or recklessly disregarding, that the Fund’s actual performance did not justify these performance claims, and without disclosing information about the Fund’s true performance and financial condition – which rapidly deteriorated in 2007 and early 2008 as Barriger continued to raise money from new and existing investors.
 
Also, the complaint alleges that Barriger defrauded the G&B Fund itself by (a) allocating the Preferred Return to investors when the Fund did not have sufficient income to justify the allocation; and (b) by, when the Fund lacked the income to support those allocations and payments causing the Fund to pay cash distributions of the Preferred Returns to those Fund investors who requested them, and to redeem investors at values reflecting the purported accrued 8% per year Preferred Return.
 
Finally, the complaint alleges that Barriger defrauded Campus and its prospective investors by causing Campus to inject a total of nearly $2.5 million into the G&B Fund between August 2007 and April 2008 at a time when the G&B Fund was in distress, and by raising money for Campus without disclosing to investors his use of Campus’s assets to prop up the ailing G&B Fund. The complaint also alleges that Barriger caused Campus to engage in other transactions that personally benefitted Barriger, none of which he disclosed to prospective Campus investors.
 
The complaint alleges that Barriger violated Sections 5(a), 5(c) and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Rule 10b-5 thereunder, and Sections 206(1) and 206(2) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.
 
In its complaint, the SEC seeks a final judgment permanently enjoining Barriger from future violations of the foregoing provisions and ordering him to pay civil penalties and disgorgement of ill-gotten gains with prejudgment interest.
 
Securities Attorney, Lars Soreide, of Soreide Law Group, PLLC, has represented clients nationwide. If you or a family member have experienced losses through Lloyd V. Barriger, Barriger & Barriger, G&B Fund, Campus Capital Group or any of the other groups or funds mentioned above,  call a Securities Arbitration Lawyer for a free consultation on how to potentially recover your losses. To speak with an attorney, call 888-760-6552, or visit www.securitieslawyer.com.

Soreide Law Group, PLLC., representing investors nationwide before FINRA the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

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