Breaking Down a Multi-Million Dollar Forfeitu...

In Episode 3 of The Bill Jennings Breakdown, I welcome on Mark Calloway of Alston & Bird and we review a 2019 case where a former CFO at a publicly traded transportation company was charged with $245 million for his role in a securities & accounting fraud scheme. 

In Episode 2 of The Bill Jennings Breakdown, Bill welcomes on Bill Holley of Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs and they review a case from earlier this year where a Rochester man conspired to defraud investors as part of a nationwide Ponzi scheme that netted over $115 million. 

Jeremiah “The Bull” Evans was a Utah-based entrepreneur who, between July 2019 and July 2022, ran a fraudulent investment scheme through his company Alpha Influence, LLC, claiming to sell clients stakes in automated stores. 

First and foremost, Bill owns stock in OppFi. This episode is not an invitation or solicitation to buy or sell shares in FGNA, the entity that OppFi is merging with in a SPAC transaction. Second, The Business Brew and Bill encourage listeners to do their own due diligence and tal ...  Show more

The Ray Trapani case centers around the fraudulent cryptocurrency startup Centra Tech, which he co-founded alongside Sohrab Sharma and Robert Farkas. In 2017, the trio launched a fake ICO (Initial Coin Offering), ultimately scamming investors out of over $25 million. Their sch ...

Barry Minkow was a teenage entrepreneur who founded the carpet-cleaning company ZZZZ Best in the 1980s and became a Wall Street sensation- until it was revealed to be one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of its time. Minkow fabricated fake restoration projects and used forged documen ...  Show more