SEC Charges Josh Garza with Securities Fraud, Alleges Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has today charged Homero Josh Garza, founder of GAW Miners and ZenMiner with securities fraud and conducting a Ponzi scheme. According to a press release by the SEC, Garza is alleged by the SEC to carry out the fraud through his two Connecticut-based companies GAW Miners and ZenMiner by falsely claiming to produce bitcoin hashing power that GAW did not own. The complaint was filed in the U. S. District Court for the District of Connecticut today. An excerpt from the SEC charge read: In reality, GAW Miners and ZenMiner did not own....
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The Paycoin saga is finally coming to a close. As you can see in this document, sent to victims of the Josh Garza pyramid scheme called GAW Miners, Paycoin, et cetera, Garza is scheduled to plead guilty to one count of wire fraud on June 1st. He was previously facing three charges, but high-powered law firm Ballard Spahr did precisely as predicted in our last article, whittling the charges down to one in exchange for a guilty plea. Garza was initially facing securities fraud charges as well as selling unregistered securities. Each securities fraud charge carried up to 25 years and a....
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against an ex-employee of the demised cryptocurrency mining outfit GAW Miners. The Federal Agency has accused Carlos R. Garza of violating a subpoena in relation to their ongoing investigation into GAW Miners and its CEO Josh Garza. The investigation is to know whether the company was engaged in fraud by selling unregistered securities through Hashlet mining products and cryptocurrency PayCoin. SEC is also investigating whether GAW was a Ponzi company, as reported by many of its investors. According to the legal notice....
WASHINGTON D.C. — Homero Joshua Garza was brought up on civil charges for the alleged operation of a “Ponzi Scheme” by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Garza and associated companies GAW Miners and ZenMiner, are being tried in court for selling $20 million USD worth of a cloud mined product called “hashlets.” The SEC alleges that Garza....
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