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Guilty plea made in Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of $380M

January 21, 2026
Associated Press and IBJ Staff

Drive Planning operated an office in Fishers that was overseen by former managing partner Gerardo Linarducci, who is facing civil fraud charges from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and multiple lawsuits from investors.  

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Indianapolis man faces fraud charges from SEC in alleged $300M Drive Planning Ponzi scheme

December 31, 2025
Susan OrrSusan Orr

Gerry Linarducci, former managing director of Drive Planning LLC, faces charges related to an alleged scheme to defraud real estate investors in Indiana and nationwide.

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Trump says US should do away with quarterly earnings reports

September 15, 2025 | Associated Press and Bloomberg News

The Securities and Exchange Commission has required publicly traded companies to report on a quarterly basis since 1970.

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$2M Geist home at heart of Drive Planning legal battle

July 25, 2025 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

Nearly a year after a federal judge placed Georgia-based financial firm Drive Planning LLC into receivership, the court-appointed receiver is still wrestling to gain control of the $2 million Geist mansion where the now-defunct firm’s managing partner lives.

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Morgan Stanley Smith Barney to pay $15M penalty to settle SEC charges

December 10, 2024 | Associated Press

The penalty was part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to four financial advisers who stole millions of dollars of advisory clients’ and brokerage customers’ funds.

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SEC says financial firm is at center of Ponzi scheme; Indy partner faces lawsuits

November 8, 2024 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

Legal problems are piling up against a now-defunct Georgia financial firm called Drive Planning LLC and its Indianapolis-based managing partner, Gerardo Linarducci.

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SEC fines firms $393M in latest WhatsApp probe cases

August 15, 2024 | Bloomberg News

The fines add to the billions of dollar that big banks previously agreed to pay the SEC and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to settle similar investigations into use of messages on personal phones and WhatsApp.

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Robinhood receives SEC notice for alleged securities violations at crypto unit

May 6, 2024 | Associated Press

The company said in a regulatory filing that it received investigative subpoenas from the SEC about issues including cryptocurrency listings, custody of cryptocurrencies, and platform operations.

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National accounting firm accused of fraud affecting more than 1,500 SEC filings

May 3, 2024 | Bloomberg News

One of the nation’s most prolific auditors, BF Borgers faces permanent suspension from practicing as accountants before the SEC and a total of $14 million in fines.

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Regulators seek to compel Elon Musk to testify in Twitter acquisition probe

October 5, 2023 | Associated Press

The SEC said in a filing that Musk failed to appear for testimony on Sept. 15 despite an investigative subpoena served by the SEC and having raised no objections at the time it was served.

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New SEC rule requires public companies to disclose cybersecurity breaches in 4 days

July 26, 2023 | Associated Press

The new rules also require publicly traded companies to annually disclose information on their cybersecurity risk management and executive expertise in the field. The idea is to protect investors.

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SEC proposes artificial-intelligence crackdown for Wall Street firms

July 26, 2023 | The Washington Post

Wall Street’s top regulator is moving to prohibit investment firms from using artificial intelligence to generate more business at the expense of their customers’ best interests, one of the first bids by a federal agency to craft rules for the technology.

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Money-market funds brace for biggest regulatory revamp in years

July 11, 2023 | Bloomberg News

Conference rooms are being reserved and snacks stockpiled as participants in the $5.5 trillion space await the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s vote Wednesday on rules reshaping the money-market industry for the third time since 2008.

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Investors say they are owed money from life settlements

April 14, 2023 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

The Indiana Secretary of State is investigating multiple complaints it has received against Roger Dobrovodsky and/or his business entities, which include EDU Financial Strategies, EDU Holding Trust, EDU Trust Services LLC and EDU Wealth Advisors LLC.

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Former Celadon execs to pay $50,000 to settle accounting fraud case

April 11, 2023 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

The judgment also bars Eric Meek and Bobby Peavler from serving as an officer or director of a public company for the next three years.

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Speedway’s Wilshaw project facing more delays after developer fails to disclose SEC trouble

March 13, 2023 | Mickey ShueyMickey Shuey

Town of Speedway leaders are pumping the brakes on a proposed $2.5 million loan to help pay for the long-delayed Wilshaw hotel project after learning that one of the companies involved wasn’t forthcoming about federal fines for past business dealings.

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SEC questions Twitter on how it counts fake accounts

August 24, 2022 | Associated Press

The SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance asked the questions in a June 15 letter, shortly before Tesla CEO Elon Musk raised the issue as grounds to back out of a deal to buy Twitter for $44 billion.

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UPDATE: Ex-U.S. congressman Buyer among 9 charged in insider trading cases

July 25, 2022 | Associated Press and IBJ Staff

Stephen Buyer is accused in court papers of engaging in insider trading during a merger of T-Mobile and Sprint, among other deals. It said he leveraged his work as a consultant and lobbyist to make illegal profits.

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Crypto industry would get its preferred regulator under new bill

April 29, 2022 | The Washington Post

A new bipartisan proposal would give the rapidly-expanding sector a victory by handing authority to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, seen by the industry as a more benevolent regulator.

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Green progress is aim of SEC reporting proposal for public companies

April 1, 2022 | Susan OrrSusan Orr

The proposal would require disclosure of risks climate change pose to companies and the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by companies and by their supply chain.

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New corporate climate change disclosures proposed by SEC

March 21, 2022 | Associated Press

The required disclosures would include greenhouse gas emissions produced by companies directly or indirectly—such as from consumption of the company’s products, vehicles used to transport products, business travel and energy used to grow raw materials.

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SEC subpoenas Elanco records related to sales practices

August 9, 2021 | John RussellJohn Russell

Greenfield-based Elanco Animal Health Inc. disclosed on Monday that it received a subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 1 related to its channel inventory and sales practices prior to mid-2020.

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