Financial Crime Weekly: SEC Charges Tai Mo Shan With Misleading Terra USD Investors, Rocket Companies Sued Over Alleged Kickback Scheme

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Additionally, the notion that Rocket Homes penalized real estate brokers or agents for helping clients compare rates and choose the best lender for them is also a lie,\" the statement said, per Yahoo Finance. \nSEC Charges Tai Mo Shan With Misleading Investors About Terra USD\nThe Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday charged Tai Mo Shan Ltd. with misleading investors about the stability of Terra USD, when UST dropped from its purportedly fixed exchange rate of 1 UST to $1, known as a peg. \nThe SEC also charged Tai Mo Shan with offering and selling securities in unregistered transactions by acting as a statutory underwriter with respect to certain of its offers and sales of LUNA LUNA/USD, a crypto asset issued by Terraform and offered and sold as a security. \n\"This case reminds us that, too many times in the crypto markets, we've seen significant investor losses due to fraud,\" said SEC Chair Gary Gensler. \n\"Here, the impact reverberated throughout the crypto markets, eventually costing the savings of countless investors. 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