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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Jul. 5, 2017

Immigration attorney loses long-running battle with SEC

An attorney lost his long-running battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission after a federal judge granted summary judgment to the agency and ordered him to pay $2.7 million for not registering as a broker to handle EB-5 immigration investments.

An attorney lost his long-running battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission after a federal judge granted summary judgment to the agency and ordered him to pay $2.7 million for not registering as a broker to handle EB-5 immigration investments.

U.S. District Judge Consuelo Marshall ruled that New York-based immigration attorney Hui Feng violated the Securities Exchange Act by failing to register as a broker and by offering...

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