Five Charged in Offering Fraud, Stock Manipulation, Ranging from Oil to Pot
April 30, 2021 Five Charged in Offering Fraud, Stock Manipulation, Ranging from Oil to Pot Prosecutors say the defendants unwittingly conspired with an undercover agent who was posting as a corrupt stock promoter. Five people have been charged in federal court for their involvement in two securities fraud schemes. According to prosecutors, the schemes involved an offering fraud of a Texas-based oil and gas company and the attempted manipulation of a cannabis company’s publicly traded stock. An indictment was filed in the Eastern District of New York against Richard Dale Sterritt Jr., Micha...