Life Partners Company, Two Execs Must Pay $47 Million in Life Settlement Scam

December 4, 2014, 5:00 AM UTC

Financial services concern Life Partners Holdings Inc. and senior LPH executives Brian Pardo and R. Scott Peden were ordered Dec. 2 by the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas to pay almost $47 million in disgorgement and civil penalties over their roles in a fraudulent disclosure and accounting scheme involving life settlements (SEC v. Life Partners Holdings Inc., W.D. Tex., 1:12-CV-33-JRN, 12/2/14.

Judge James R. Nowlin also barred the defendants from future securities law violations,

The defendants were found to have misled shareholders by failing to disclose a significant risk to Life Partners’ business—that the ...

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