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HSBC Bank Payment of Legal Expenses from Trust Funds Class Action
This is the third in a series of class action suits filed by Royal Park Investments (RPI) based on other current lawsuits. The original lawsuits each allege that a certain bank has failed to fulfill its duties as trustees to RPI funds; these secondary suits allege that the defendant banks have been paying their legal Read moreInvestments
City National Bank Aiding of ATM Ponzi Scheme Class Action
Two men, Joel Barry Gillis and Edward W. Wishner, are now in prison for running NASI, a company that operated a Ponzi scheme purporting to sell ATMs to investors in return for “rentals” from ATM fees. How did they get away with it for fifteen long years? According to the complaint for this class action, Read moreInvestments
GE Retirement Plan Underperforming Funds and Breach of Fiduciary Duty ERISA Class Action
Federal law requires that most company retirement plans be managed for the sole benefits of those enrolled in the plans. But the complaint for this class action alleges that General Electric and associated entities violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) with its Retirement Savings Plan by favoring underperforming GE-related funds as investments and Read moreInvestments
US Bank Payment of Legal Expenses From Trust Funds Class Action
Royal Park Investments (RPI) hired US Bank National Association as trustee for twenty-one of its residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) trusts, but apparently was not satisfied with the bank’s performance. It is suing US Bank in a case called Royal Park Inv. SA/NV v. U.S. Bank Nat’l Ass’n, No. 1:14-cv-02590-VM—but it claims to have recently discovered Read moreInvestments
Wells Fargo Unlawful Payment of Expenses from Trust Funds Class Action
This case is built on top of another case. Royal Park Investments (RPI) sued Well Fargo in Royal Park Investments SA/NV v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., No. 1:14-cv-09764-KPF-SN (S.D.N.Y.), claiming that Wells Fargo had failed to fulfill its duties as a trustee of two of RPI’s trusts, allegedly damaging RPI and the classes’ certificate holders. Read moreInvestments
Apollo Global Management Fraudulent “Restructuring” Class Action
This class action alleges that Apollo Global Management, LLC orchestrated a fraudulent “restructuring” of CEVA Investments Limited (CIL), in breach of its fiduciary duty, that extinguished the value of shares held by its CEVA-employee investors for the benefit of Apollo. The employee investor plaintiffs believe that their losses in this restructuring amounted to more than Read moreInvestments
Kraken Liquidated Ether Virtual Currency Class Action
Ether is a virtual currency that may be traded for normal currencies via online exchanges such as Kraken, the defendant in this case. This class action alleges that a systems problem occurred at Kraken, leading to it locking customers out of their accounts and liquidating the Ether holdings in margin accounts. Had Kraken’s systems been Read moreInvestments
KLX Securities Fraud Class Action Lawsuit
This securities fraud class action lawsuit alleges that KLX, Inc. violated the federal securities law by materially misrepresenting the value of its intangible assets and its goodwill associated with the Company's Energy Services Group, along with its policies and the methodology implemented to calculate goodwill, risk and asset impairment, conduct which ultimately caused significant losses Read moreInvestments
Deutsche Bank Fiduciary Breach ERISA Class Action
This class action lawsuit alleges that Deutsche Bank Americas Holding Corp. and other fiduciaries of the Deutsche Bank Matched Savings Plan breached duties imposed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) by engaging in prohibited transactions and unlawful self-dealing with regard to selecting investments, to the the detriment of the Plan, its participants and Read moreInvestments
Reliance Trust/Insperity ERISA Class Action Lawsuit
This class action lawsuit alleges that Reliance Trust Company, Insperity and related entities breached fiduciary duties owed to participants and beneficiaries of an ERISA-covered 401(k) plan by allowing payment of unreasonable administrative and recordkeeping fees, payment of unreasonable investment management fees, using low-yielding money market funds without considering other options, failing to monitor fiduciaries and Read moreInvestments