{"id":277790,"date":"2020-11-20T08:23:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/?p=277790"},"modified":"2021-08-17T22:42:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T02:42:18","slug":"sec-moves-forward-with-case-against-meta-1-coin-promoters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/sec-moves-forward-with-case-against-meta-1-coin-promoters","title":{"rendered":"SEC Moves Forward With Case Against Meta 1 Coin Promoters\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) remains committed in its mission to bring suspected fraudsters to book.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In its latest act, the agency is seeking a default judgment against an allegedly fraudulent crypto project. This is despite its promoters failing to show up.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>No Defendant, No Problem<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/17037190\/securities-and-exchange-commission-v-meta-1-coin-trust\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">motion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> filed earlier this week, the SEC has sought a default judgment against Meta 1 Coin, a self-proclaimed art and gold-backed stablecoin. The SEC\u2019s filing roped in the asset as well as its promoters \u2013 including four individuals and three companies. All defendants had reportedly missed their court appearances despite having corresponded with their lawyers and the court.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The defendants in the case include Wanda Traversie-Warner, Robert P. Dunlap, Alfred Warner Jr., and Nicole Bowlder. The SEC also mentioned Clear Trust International, Meta 1 Coin trust, and Ironheart Trust. All defendants were accused of defrauding about 500 investors of $9 million in the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for the Meta1 Coin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amongst other things, the defendants allegedly claimed that the assets were backed by $1 billion in fine art assets of $2 billion in gold reserves. However, none of these funds existed, and the promoters spent investor funds on lavish lifestyles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meta 1 Coin told investors that coins bought in a pre-ICO would grow from $22.22 or $44.44 to over $50,000 in two years. The SEC now seeks civil penalties, disgorgement, and a permanent injunction against all defendants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Criminals Going AWOL<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This isn\u2019t the first time that a regulatory agency would have to deal with a no-show defendant. In August, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.documentcloud.org\/documents\/20385014-cftc-v-benjamin-reynolds-aug-20-proposed-final-judgment\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">motion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to grant a $429 million penalty against Benjamin Reynolds, the founder of the U.K.-based Ponzi scheme Control Finance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The CFTC has been building a case against Reynolds and Control Finance since last year. At the time, the watchdog <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/7938-19\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">claimed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that the entities misappropriated about 22,858 BT (worth $147 million at the time) from over 1,000 investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Control Finance allegedly got investors to deposit funds, promising daily returns through trading. However, it was really just a Ponzi scheme. When the jig was up, Control Finance\u2019s website and social media pages immediately went dark. Despite pleading for investors to keep calm, Reynolds and his associates had begun laundering their funds.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, the CFTC has been working to find Reynolds. In January, news sources <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/financefeeds.com\/cftc-trouble-locating-director-fraudulent-crypto-scheme-control-finance\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that the agency filed a motion asking the New York District Court for a service of process on Reynolds. It also asked to extend the sixty-day limit to enforce the service on him and Control Finance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite that, all search efforts have proved abortive. In a second <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/15784148\/commodity-futures-trading-commission-v-control-finance-limited\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">filing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the CFTC claimed that it got leads that Reynolds was in South Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fin-excerpt\">The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) remains committed in its mission to bring suspected fraudsters to book.\u00a0In its latest act, the agency is <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/sec-moves-forward-with-case-against-meta-1-coin-promoters\" title=\"SEC Moves Forward With Case Against Meta 1 Coin Promoters\u00a0\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1770,"featured_media":275674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7596],"tags":[8299,10147,3943],"class_list":["post-277790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-cftc","tag-control-finance","tag-sec"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.8 (Yoast SEO v23.8) - 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