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SEC charges Drive Planning LLC and its CEO with fraud

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The SEC accuses the company and its CEO Russell Todd Burkhalter of offering unregistered securities and operating a Ponzi scheme.

A scheme that raised over $300m from more than 2,000 investors by promising 10% returns every three months has led the SEC to file fraud charges. The agency called the plan a “scheme to defraud from day one.”

The charges are against Russell Todd Burkhalter and his alleged corporate alter ego, Atlanta-based

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