Securities Fraud

The SEC on Wednesday charged broker-dealer Steven Pagartanis, 58, of East Setauket, N.Y., with defrauding investors, many of them elderly, in an <a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/SECvPagartanis.pdf"><strong>$8 million investment scam</strong></a>.

MANHATTAN — The SEC on Wednesday charged broker-dealer Steven Pagartanis, 58, of East Setauket, N.Y., with defrauding investors, many of them elderly, in an $8 million investment scam; state prosecutors filed parallel criminal charges.

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