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.
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.
The amount raised since October is in addition to the $69.9 million it received in May from three venture
firms on the coasts, in what was the third-largest venture deal in the nation during the second quarter,
according to the National Venture Capital Association.
Carl Brizzi’s short stint as a Fair Finance director reflects a larger pattern in Tim Durham’s business dealings.
The Innovate Indiana Fund will invest $5 million over the next five years to commercialize IU technologies and another
$5 million to help IU-affiliated startups get off the ground.
The Indiana Secretary of State’s securities division says Indiana State Teachers Association can’t account for $23 million
intended for
school districts, requests assets be frozen.
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.
A survey shows wealthy investors are targeting real estate. But what about Indianapolis?
Any case federal prosecutors pursue against Tim Durham or his associates likely would revolve around what his Fair Finance
Co. disclosed—or didn’t disclose—to potential investors, legal observers said.
Ohio securities regulators say Tim Durham’s Fair Finance Co. won’t be permitted to sell additional investment certificates
unless it satisfactorily answers a series of questions about the company’s ability to pay them back.
The market often stays wrong much longer than the early investors stay solvent.
Faced with the potential for another bout with stagflation, investment managers are scrambling to decide how to face a future when markets may again be thrown into turmoil by the two-headed monster of frisky price increases and crummy economic conditions.
Secretary of State Todd Rokita has relied on fines and fees to greatly increase his office’s firepower without a tax hike.
Making investment decisions based on where a stock price has been in the past or betting on where it may go in the future is futile and foolish unless the investor has determined the value of the stock.
Major stock indexes rose as much as 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which jumped 203 points.
The early signs point to meek efforts by the Obama administration to address gaping regulatory issues.
Indianapolis businessman Tim Durham has treated Ohio-based Fair Finance Co. almost like a personal bank since buying it seven
years ago, and now he, his partners and related firms owe it more than $168 million, records show.
