Legal Opinion
Donell v. Kowell
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 1, 2008No. 06-55544PublishedCited by 180 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYBEE, Circuit Judge:
Robert Kowell found an investment opportunity that sounded too good to be true. In Kowell’s case, it wasn’t. J.T. Wallen-brock & Associates (“Wallenbrock”) promised Kowell a 20 percent return on his investment every ninety days, risk free, and that is nearly what he got. Because he received regular interest payments from Wallenbrock, Kowell was quite surprised to learn later that an SEC investigation had revealed the business to be a Ponzi scheme in which thousands of investors had been defrauded. Several years after Kowell first invested, and long after he had spent his…
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