Who are you kidding? This is not a civil lawsuit!! These are charges levied by the SEC against Patrick Rooney for FRAUD.
"Patrick Rooney and Solaris Management
The SEC charged Oakbrook, Ill. resident Patrick G. Rooney and his company Solaris Management LLC for fraudulently misusing the assets of the Solaris Opportunity Fund LP, to which it was the investment adviser.
According to the SEC’s complaint filed on Nov. 16, 2011 in federal court in Chicago, Rooney and Solaris made a radical change in the fund’s investment strategy, contrary to the fund’s offering documents and marketing materials, by becoming wholly invested in Positron Corp., a financially troubled microcap company.
The SEC alleges that Rooney, who has been Chairman of Positron since 2004 and received salary and stock options from Positron since September 2005, misused the Solaris Fund’s money by investing more than $3.6 million in Positron through both private transactions and market purchases. Many of the private transactions were undocumented while other investments were interest-free loans to Positron. Rooney and Solaris hid the Positron investments and Rooney’s relationship with the company from the fund’s investors for over four years. Although Rooney finally told investors about the Positron investments in a March 2009 newsletter, he allegedly lied by telling them he became Chairman to safeguard the fund’s investments. These investments benefited Positron and Rooney while providing the fund with a concentrated, undiversified, and illiquid position in a cash-poor company with a lengthy track record of losses.
The SEC’s investigation was conducted by Andrew Shoenthal, Malinda Grish, Ann Tushaus, Linda Gerstman, and Paul Montoya of the Chicago Regional Office. Timothy Leiman is leading the litigation effort."
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