Saturday, February 9, 2013

SEC charges fraudster in $150 mln scheme




U.S. securities regulators charged an Illinois man with fraud and told Reuters he misled investors from China on a $150 million deal he told them would help their prospects for U.S. citizenship, according to a complaint unsealed on Friday.

Anshoo Sethi told investors their funds would buy interests in a hotel project in Chicago that had received building permits and commitments from major hotel chains, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.

But none of the hotel chains were on board with the project, and the only permits the city had provided were for preliminary efforts including a tent for a groundbreaking ceremony and a demolition permit, the commission said….

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