Providing Help for Victims of Fraud
Have you been the victim of bad investment advice? Did your broker make trades without your permission? Did you make an investment or purchase a business, only to learn later, that the seller misrepresented the profitability of that business? What are my rights?
Investing and trading is regulated by more than just the market. Sometimes even professionals take advantage of even sophisticated customers, who then become the victim of the predations by those entrusted with their savings.
If you invest in securities (stocks, bonds, options, limited partnerships, mutual funds, certain commodities, etc.) and you have experienced problems with your investments, and your disappointment may be more than market forces at play. Or, if you have recently purchased a business, you may only learn after the fact that that business is not what the seller represented it to be. Naturally, people enter into investment and business relationships uncertain of what the outcome will be, however, often times, the uncertainty may be a product of overreaching or fraud. Whether or not you are a victim of fraud, or some other abuse, will often depend on which laws are implicated and/or which are intended to regulate the conduct of that transaction. In many cases, you may have certain rights which you may not be aware of, and many times, but you must act quickly or else you will be unable to recover!
