JPMorgan Chase ‘Knowingly Assisted’ $119,000,000 Ponzi Scheme, New Lawsuit Alleges

Banking big JPMorgan Chase is accused of knowingly facilitating an alleged Ponzi scheme concentrating on retail traders.

Plaintiff David Stapleton alleges that the financial institution furthered an obvious fraudulent scheme orchestrated by Sanjeev Acharya, the CEO of Silicon Sage Builders, which resulted in important monetary losses to traders.

Stapleton says Acharya raised greater than $119 million from 250 traders for actual property tasks that had been largely unprofitable, allegedly utilizing Ponzi-like techniques to pay early traders with cash from new traders.

“Certainly, Chase Financial institution hosted all of the accounts and executed the misleading transactions that allowed Acharya to hold out the fraudulent scheme and squander the trustees’ funds. The trustees had a complete of 77 financial institution accounts at Chase Financial institution and carried out greater than 130,000 banking transactions by Chase Financial institution…

Chase Financial institution was conscious of Acharya’s plan and considerably supported it. From a financial institution’s perspective, the fraudulent scheme was clear. A fraudulent scheme of this magnitude can’t be carried out secretly by one financial institution. And that did not occur right here.”

Stapleton alleges {that a} Chase enterprise affiliate supervisor knew in regards to the fraudulent scheme, actively helped handle the accounts and circumvented inner safeguards akin to fraud prevention protocols.

The lawsuit seeks compensation for damages brought on by the fraudulent scheme and the financial institution’s alleged function in enabling it, in search of punitive damages, attorneys’ charges and different treatments.

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