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SEC Charges Cooper Morgenthau for Looting $5 million from SPACs

Published 2023/01/04, 10:41
Updated 2023/01/04, 11:00
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  • Cooper Morgenthau pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $5 million from two SPACs.
  • SEC charged him claiming that he had been amassing money from African Gold and Strategic Metals.
  • He is alleged of concealing unauthorized withdrawals by falsifying the bank account statement of African Gold.

Cooper Morgenthau, the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of two Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs), SPAC-1 and SPAC-2, reportedly pleaded guilty to illegally amassing more than $5 million from the two companies. The defendant admitted that he has lost almost the whole amount trading meme stocks and crypto. He confessed his guilt before U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer.

On Tuesday, Daniel Williams, the United States Attorney of the Southern District of New York announced that:

Cooper Morgenthau, the former CFO of two SPACs, has admitted that he breached the trust that he owed to his public and private investors, stealing millions of dollars from them to trade meme stocks and cryptocurrencies. This Office remains committed to rooting out fraud in the SPAC market and to protecting Main Street investors from abuses on Wall Street.

Significantly, the US Securities and Exchange Commis ...

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