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Prominent Georgia Republican charged with $140m investment fraud by SEC

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The case highlights the dangers of investment fraud involving purported “bridge loans.”

The SEC has announced charges against Edwin Brant Frost IV and First Liberty Building & Loan, LLC, accusing them of orchestrating a Ponzi-like investment fraud scheme.

Frost consented to the SEC’s requests for relief and agreed to an asset freeze, a security industry ban, and to pay back the misappropriated