Thomas Priore Exposed by the SEC for Running a Fraud (2023 Update)

Olena Ivanova By Olena Ivanova
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Originally Syndicated on April 20, 2023 @ 5:57 am

Thomas Priore is a scammer. The SEC recently settled a case against him for running a major debt fraud.

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SEC to settle Thomas Priore, ICP Asset Management CDO, scam case

According to the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission principles and laws, a lawsuit filed against the New York financial services firm, ICP Asset Management, and the founder, Thomas Priore of the scammer organization includes four collateralized debt obligations. 

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The agreement of the case, pursued by the SEC, after the financial crisis has taken place and the collapse of the U.S. housing market, was revealed in the letter by the attorneys of the District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday. 

Thomas Priore claims that it was the first case filed against him by the commission. 

According to the attorney for the SEC, ICP, and the individual accused including the founder, Thomas Priore stated that they will submit the agreement for court approval by the end of August. 

Under the shadow of the agreement, the U.S. District Judge,  Lewis Kaplan, would detain a trial to be started on September 11 to September 25. 

The expression of the agreement was not revealed. Thus, the letter said that the settlement is subject to the approval of the SEC’s five commissioners. Any type of agreement would also be subjected to Kalpan’s approval. 

A spokesperson of the SEC, Kevin Callahan refused the comment, and an attorney for Thomas Priore, Malachi Jones, did not answer the request for commenting anything. 

In June 2010, the SEC instituted legal proceedings against ICP, claiming that they contravene the federal securities laws by appealing the improper transaction to defend their four multi-billion dollars “Triaxx” which was invested by the CDO in mortgage-backed securities of tens of millions of dollars. 

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A revised case has been filed in June 2011 attached new demands, claiming that Thomas Priore attempted to find out the transfer of millions of dollars in real-estate advantages after discovering the SEC planned to charge him. The new case has been added to Priore’s wife Lori and his friend Bertrand Smyers to the occurrences. 

The agreement would also cover the complaint against Lori Priore and Smyers. Their attorney, S. Robert Schrager for the wife of Thomas Priore, Lori Priore, and his friend Simon Miller for Smyers but it does not answer the appeal for their comments. 

During the time of proceedings, Kaplan on July 31 contradict the SEC’s request for an incomplete summary by the judge of the District Court against Thomas Priore. 

The case was filed in SEC v.s. ICP Assest Management, LLC et al. U.S, District Court, Southern District of New York. 

ICP Asset Management CDO LLC v. Triaxx Prime CDO 

Thomas Priore, ICP Asset Management LLC, Institutional Credit Partners, LLC, and Thomas C. Priore conduct an action to recover all the legal fees and costs of all the actions which are entitled to Securities and Exchange Commission v. ICP Asset Management. 

Background 

The accused has been insinuating their five counterclaims with their relatable answer in return that they started counterclaims against ICP and Thomas Priore. These five counterclaims are: 

  • Scam 
  • Breach of contract 
  • ICP HoldCo for assisting and encouraging scam
  • Breach of fiduciary scam
  • Compensation for their harm or loss 

As a result of these agreements, the accused declared that Triaxx Funds has been involved in millions of dollars in harm and loss profit and it has been declared in the trial by the court. It also includes the fees or expenses connected with the AIG and SEC Actions and millions of dollars in loss due to the cause of Triaxx Funds. 

Discussion 

According to the court, they agreed on all their five contentions that the accuser’s counterclaims in the court.

SEC’s complaint claim that ICP and Thomas Priore created the CDOs to make a lot of forbidden investments without acquiring legal approvals from the court and later misreport has been investing to the founder of CDO, Thomas Priore, and their investors. The expenses of these investments were deliberately distended through being filled to allow ICP to collect all the thousand million dollars in the form of consultative fees from the CDOs. 

SEC claims that Thomas Priore and ICP have accomplished unrevealed fund transfers from a hedgerow fund to manage all the ICP customers to grasp the margin calls of their creditors. 

The case was filed against the ICP, ICP Securities, Institutional Credit Partners, and Thomas Priore contravene under section 17(a) of the Securities Act 1993 and directly contravening and help and assist violation of Section 10(b) OF THE Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and under the rule of 10b-5. 

The further proceedings of the case stated that ICPP and Thomas Priore directly contravene ICP Securities, Institutional Credit Partners, and Thomas Priore’s help and assist contravene under Section 206(1), (2), and (4). 

Conclusion

According to the report of the court, the plaintiff’s process is to release all the accuser’s counterclaims, the consent of a protection statement has been granted along with the counterclaims are refused by the court.

Who is Thomas Priore?

Thomas Priore is an Executive Chairman and Founder of Priore Grops since August 2005. He is currently presuming the role of Chief Executive Officer in December 2018. 

He founded ICP Capital. A small investment banking enterprise that became a leader in the investment market by reaching up to $20 million in assets. 

He did his graduation from Harvard University and pursued a degree in MBA from Columbia University. But he is a big scammer and fraudster including various collateralized debt obligations. 

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  • Thomas shouldn’t be taken lightly as he is committed of scamming several of his clients, running a debt fraud scam is illegal, and he is liable for scamming his several clients which has made him, very much and should be sent to prison for all his nefarious schemes, and it is very much important to make sure that your money isn’t invested with these scammers for making sure that none of their people are frauded by this man. The SEC has filed several lawsuits against this man for his scam and there are thousands of clients with proof of being scammed by this man, Thomas has got all the plans for scamming his investors, thus it is very much important to keep in mind that your money isn’t wasted for no refund and profit, make sure you won’t get involved with this nefarious firm. ICP Asset Management was involved in most of the criminal cases for making their investors filled with regret for investing with them, there are several other firms present in the market where you can invest without fearing any loss, no like Thomas’s fake schemes filled of fraudulent scams, make sure you won’t invest with this man, for any of the investment schemes. My experience says people like Thomas are always there to produce schemes through which they can fill their pockets.

  • ICP has promoted other scammers for gaining popularity and also how to run their scams for attracting several other people through their fake schemes, ICP has been caught by the SEC for spreading their fake schemes and making their people suffer for money and loss and gaining zero profit, if you were somehow planning to earn a profit after investing with ICP then you will end after investing with the wrong company, so be wise before investing and be sure before investing because it is found that none of their investors have earned any profit rather then facing loss.

  • It would be great if the SEC could manage to get all the money from these scammers as they are not reliable for earning profit after investing with them so make sure your money is invested with the right venture at the correct motion, otherwise, cases of digital fraud and several other frauds have been taking place, it is very much important to avoid investing with some nefarious firm, famous for its frauds, and also the family members were very happy and all of my relatives were safe wf got some problems then solve them accordingly and never be eager to invest with anyone for earning profit otherwise regretting after investing with Thomas isn’t a sensible step.

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