Georgia District Court Grants Motion To Dismiss Class Action Against Investment Bank For Aiding And Abetting Fraud, Finding That Alleged Investments At Issue Were A “Covered Security” Under SLUSA
08/23/2022
On August 17, 2022, Judge Steven D. Grimberg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted a motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging an investment bank (the “Company”), certain of its advisors (the “Advisor Defendants”), and certain of its external accountants (the “Accounting Defendants”) aided and abetted one of the Company’s former advisors (the “Individual Defendant”) in facilitating an alleged decade-long Ponzi scheme. 6694 Dawson Blvd, LLC v. Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., et al., 1:21-cv-03625. (N.D. Geo. Aug. 17, 2022). Plaintiffs alleged that defendants misrepresented or concealed material facts that, had plaintiffs known, would have caused them not to purchase allegedly “bogus” securities from the Individual Defendant.