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The Business Trial Group is proud to announce that it reached a confidential settlement in federal court against American General Life Insurance Company (a subsidiary of AIG). Our clients alleged that the insurance product they purchased was misrepresented to them. In November 2017 the Business Trial Group’s Clay Townsend, Keith Mitnik, Jessica Thorson, and Paul [...]

Navigating the securities markets can be a daunting task for both inexperienced and experienced investors alike. There are countless rules and regulations governing every facet of the sale and purchase of a security designed to protect investors from opportunistic brokers. Clients who are sold unregistered securities and suffer losses may be able to file a [...]

Thousands of investors in South Florida and nationally have been defrauded in a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme operated by Robert Shapiro and his Boca Raton-based Woodbridge Group of Companies, LLC (Woodbridge). Woodbridge and Shapiro are charged with defrauding over 8,400 investors out of $1.2 billion. On December 20, 2017 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

A Virginia pastor and his wife were convicted on nearly 40 counts of fraud for operating an investment scam that conned their congregation out of millions of dollars. The Millenders lost $2 million of investor funds through investing in highly risky FOREX trading. Pastor Terry Millender and his wife Brenda scammed members of the Victorious [...]