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SEC roundup: Fee failures, fraud, improper trading and manipulated financial results

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In one of this week’s cases, a company founder paid a data science professor to manufacture fake data, and an investment advisor firm failed to disclose fees of more than $4m.

Student loan assistance company Frank’s founder charged with fraud in $175m sale – April 4

Charlie Javice, the founder of the now closed Frank, has been charged with fraud in connection with a $175m sale of the company to JPMorgan Chase Bank in 2021. Javice allegedly deceived the buyer that Frank

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