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Avtar Singh Dhillon, a former B.C. cannabis company executive and stock promoter, has exchanged his testimony and guilty plea in a civil fraud proceeding for a US$10.4-million repayment of ill-gotten gains and a penny stock ban, with no civil penalty; Dhillon faces a sentencing hearing for related criminal conduct, this November.
Graham Taylor used a law firm to orchestrate a "pump and dump," according to SEC claims which he neither admits nor denies in a US$5M settlement.
The influx of retail investors on the stock market in recent months and the rise of social media speculation around meme stocks has given strong momentum to pump and dump schemes.
U.S. Securities Commission alleges Richmond and Vancouver families worked with a Port Coquitlam man to allegedly hack American brokerage accounts.
State authorities are reviewing the deadly police shooting of a Gloucester County man, who had called 911 to report an armed intruder at his house in September.