An attorney who was part of a stock manipulation scheme that led a participant to tip the government to the college admissions cheating scandal settled with the SEC for just over $57,000 Thursday in federal court in Massachusetts.
Peter DiChiara, a New York lawyer, helped Morrie Tobin hide his control of Environmental Packaging Technologies Holdings Inc. so he could dump shares and “profit at the expense of defrauded investors,” the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Tobin tipped the government to the cheating scandal after the SEC ...
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