Fair Finance investors file additional fraud suit
More than three dozen residents of a northeast Ohio county who invested in Fair Finance Co. are seeking to recover more
than $2.1 million from the shuttered company.
More than three dozen residents of a northeast Ohio county who invested in Fair Finance Co. are seeking to recover more
than $2.1 million from the shuttered company.
A symbolic topping-off ceremony early this month to celebrate a milestone on the massive JW Marriott hotel project can’t
hide the anxiety felt within the construction industry.
Daily newspapers on Thursday filed a motion seeking to unseal search warrant documents related to the federal investigation
of Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham and Akron, Ohio-based Fair Finance Co.
Carl Brizzi partnered on a bank branch, took an ownership interest in an office building and flipped condos.
A Virginia businessman is suing Tim Durham, alleging he and other defendants manipulated the September auction of a 1930 Duesenberg
that sold for $2.9 million.
Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co. says it needs another 30 days to provide Ohio regulators with a mountain of documents
they requested relating to insider loans and other issues.
The statement says the company anticipates reopening its loan-collection arm, but offers no assurances to the Ohio investors
it owes.
A federal financial-disclosure statement Brizzi submitted in May lists the politician as an investor in Red Rock Pictures
Holdings Inc., a film-development firm also backed by Durham.
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Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi is listed in a federal filing as an investor in Los Angeles-based Red Rock Pictures Holdings,
a company linked to embattled Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham.
An Italian restaurant whose owner has ties to embattled local businessman Tim Durham is poised to take the first-floor
space in Circle Centre mall formerly occupied by Bertolini’s.
Attorneys on Friday afternoon filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to rescind $200 million in investor purchases of Fair
Finance Co. securities and to slap Tim Durham and other company insiders with millions of dollars in punitive
damages.
Ohio securities regulators have asked for a mountain of additional information from Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co. that
they say they would have to evaluate before deciding whether to allow the company to resume the sale of investment certificates.
Carl Brizzi’s short stint as a Fair Finance director reflects a larger pattern in Tim Durham’s business dealings.
If Congress passes health care reform, more people will become like Juli Erhart-Graves, whose family spends nearly 18 percent
of its income on health insurance and out-of-pocket medical costs.
This week’s issue features stories about two local businessmen. Both are native Hoosiers in their late 40s who showed
entrepreneurial instincts at a young age. But the similarities end there.
If Congress passes health reform, the number of people buying insurance on their own will more than double by 2016, according
to projections by the Congressional Budget Office, as health reform requires all Americans to have health insurance.
A Texas company acknowledged Tuesday that the SEC is investigating transactions between it and Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co.
The federal government on Monday morning dropped a high-profile civil lawsuit seeking to seize Tim Durham’s assets after
receiving
assurance they wouldn’t vanish.
Fair Finance Co. remained closed Monday morning, adding to the anxiety of Ohioans who have purchased about $200 million of
the company’s investment certificates.