{"id":4094,"date":"2018-09-06T14:14:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4094"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:14:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T19:14:18","slug":"sec-goes-after-marijuana-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"SEC Goes After Marijuana Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Greenview Investment Partners L.P and its founder, Michael E. Cone, yesterday with defrauding investors by promising 24% annual returns from cannabis related investments. Cone has also been criminally charged and has had approximately $1.4 million worth of cash and assets seized.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interstatedrugbust.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/maxresdefault-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for fraud\" width=\"245\" height=\"163\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the SEC complaint, Cone concealed his prior criminal convictions by using an alias and lied about having a former agent from the U.S Drug Enforcement Administration on staff, and falsely claimed to have a long record of profitably investing millions into cannabis-related businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Cone allegedly spent investors money on designer clothes and luxury cars.<\/p>\n<p>Cone settled the SEC&#8217;s charges by agreeing to an officer-and-director bar and a permanent injunction.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been a victim of fraud contact our law office at 816-524-4949 or visit our website at Hoorfarlaw.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Greenview Investment Partners L.P and its founder, Michael E. Cone, yesterday with defrauding investors by promising 24% annual returns from cannabis related investments. Cone has also been criminally charged and has had approximately $1.4 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/?p=4094\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4095,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions\/4095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoorfarlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}