Bloomberg Businessweek (North America)
Current and former tenants
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Aegis Capital was fined $950,000 by financial regulators in 2015 for helping unload unregistered shares of penny stocks. The company didn’t admit any wrongdoing.
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Bond-trading firm Direct Access Partners closed after a scheme to bribe a Venezuelan bank official surfaced in 2013. The former CEO is serving a four-year prison sentence.
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Luis Ferreira was on supervised release from prison after serving time for a telemarketing scam when his firm leased this space. He was arrested for violating parole in 2010 and later fled; he’s now on the FBI’S most-wanted list.
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Mark Malik is in prison after being convicted of swindling investors out of more than $800,000. The 34-year-old pretended to have died of a heart attack when investors tried to withdraw their cash from his fake fund, Wolf Hedge.
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Investment manager John Bivona was sued in March by the SEC, which said he funneled investor cash to relatives, including nephew Frank Mazzola, and used the money to pay for a Jersey Shore vacation home. Both have denied wrongdoing in court filings.
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Florida-based brokerage Gunnallen Financial closed in 2010 after regulators said it didn’t have sufficient capital; it was overwhelmed by legal costs after some brokers were involved in Ponzi schemes.
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Ronen Zakai, a partner of the heads of First Merger Capital, spent most of 2015 in prison after being convicted of stealing $705,000 raised from investors who were told they were buying into Facebook’s IPO. Zakai didn’t respond to a Facebook message.
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Lawyer Matthew Bennett Greene of Stilas International Law was banned from practicing in Virginia for failing to deliver services and fined in 2013 by Connecticut’s banking commissioner over a movie investment scheme that promised 1,000 percent returns. He didn’t respond to messages.
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Day traders at A.B. Watley Group were found guilty in 2009 of a scheme to bribe brokers at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup to let them listen in on internal “squawk box” calls. The convictions were overturned in 2012, because prosecutors withheld evidence.
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Mazzola of Felix Investments paid $500,000 to settle an SEC fraud case in 2014.