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New York securities attorney Darren Ofsink, once an active adviser to emerging growth companies seeking to go public through reverse mergers, pleaded guilty on Oct. 18 to one charge of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, for his role in the $86 million manipulation scheme of CodeSmart Holdings (ITEN).
Robert D. Weber has joined the Century City office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton as a partner in the firm's Business Trial practice group. Weber joins from DLA Piper.
Ironridge Global Partners has settled a two-year-old enforcement action with the Securities and Exchange Commission over its use of a previously obscure cause of the bankruptcy code to provide equity financing to distressed microcaps. Without admitting guilt, the fund managers agreed to one count of failing to register as a broker-dealer, and will pay $4.4 million in disgorgement penalties.
An equity crowdfunding offering by a food truck franchiser has been withdrawn after federal authorities arrested 14 individuals who are accused of being part of a sophisticated ring that manipulated the company’s stock when it traded on the OTCQB from 2014 to 2015. The Reg CF offering by The Grilled Cheese Truck was listed on FlashFunders, owned by Boustead Securities of Irvine, Calif.
