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The 32-count Mazur indictment charges nine defendants, all of whom were taken into custody yesterday morning.
They are Sherman Mazur, 63, of the Westwood district of Los Angeles, who controlled a company called the London Finance Group, Ltd.; Ari Kaplan, 40 of Venice, who is Mazur’s nephew and was his partner in the London Finance Group, as well as in a series of other business endeavors; Grover Henry Colin Nix IV (who generally used the name “Colin Nix”), 39, of the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, who controlled the Santa Monica-based Calbridge Capital LLC, which purported to be a “boutique investment banking firm”; Regis Possino, 65, of the Pacific Palisades district of Los Angeles, a now-disbarred attorney who was Nix’s partner at Calbridge Capital; Edon Moyal, 32, of Carlsbad, California, who controlled a company called 8 Sounds, Inc. and while allegedly involved in this scheme was free on bond pending trial in a criminal case filed in federal court in San Diego; Mark Harris, 56, of Scottsdale, Arizona, a stock promoter who controlled Apache Capital LLC, an investor relations firm in Scottsdale; Joey Davis, 46, of the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, who controlled Scripted Consulting Group, a public relations firm in Los Angeles and who was allegedly involved in this scheme while free on bond pending trial in a criminal case filed in federal court in Los Angeles; Curtis Platt, who turned 51 today, of Sarasota, Florida, who controlled Big Dog International LLC; and Dwight Brunoehler, 62, of Maitland, Florida, who is the CEO of Biostem, a company based in Clearwater, Fla.
Those named in the second indictment are: Regis Possino, who along with Nix, controlled a series of companies used in relation to the stock manipulation scheme; Grover Henry Colin Nix IV, who was generally known as Colin Nix; Tarun Mendiratta, 42, of Weston, Conn., who claimed to have earned between $75 million and $80 from market manipulation schemes over the past decade and who allegedly participated in the current scheme, in part, by using a cell phone smuggled into the prison where he was housed; Ivano Angelastri, 49, a resident of Switzerland and Dubai, who controlled funds and securities in foreign accounts for himself and Mendiratta (Angelastri is the one defendants who was not arrested yesterday; he is currently being sought by authorities); Mark Harris, the Arizona-based stock promoter; Edon Moyal; the San Diego County man; Joseph Scarpello, 52, of Tustin, California, a disbarred attorney who controlled Taylor Financial, Ltd.; Julian Spitari, 47, of Encino, California, who was the CEO of the company that came to be called FrogAds; Peter Dunn, 72, of the Brentwood district of Los Angeles, who was the CEO of Empire Post Media; William Mackey, 61, a stock promoter who resides in Plantation, Florida, who allegedly was free on bond in a federal case filed in New York City when he committed the crimes alleged in this indictment; and Joseph Davis, the PR executive.
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