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SEC charges Pennsylvania investment adviser with $100 million fraud; obtains emergency asset freeze

( August 27, 2019, 20:59 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Brenda Smith, a Pennsylvania investment adviser, with advisory fraud over $100 million in investments. The SEC also obtained an emergency asset freeze. "Ms. Smith breached her clients' trust by misleading investors with false claims of how she invested their money and how those investments performed," said G. Jeffrey Boujoukos, regional director of the SEC's Philadelphia Regional Office.Statement follows in full. ...

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