Webull Must Face Trader Fraud Suit After Targeted Hack Claim (2)

Webull Financial LLC must defend against a common law fraud claim brought by an attorney who says his brokerage account was targeted and that he was stalked in response to his comments in online finance forums, a federal judge said.

The trading platform and numerous other Wall Street entities—including Citadel Securities LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co.—that pro se attorney Judekenneth Maduka Orji sued are free from his differing allegations against them involving violations of federal securities law, the Sherman Antitrust Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and Maryland law, Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby of the US ...