People v. Cole
California Court of Appeal
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1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
HALLER, J.
A jury convicted one-time business partners Kevin Charles Cole and Frank Anthony Robles of various felony offenses involving the sale of securities, including highly speculative ones, to more than a dozen elderly investors who lost an aggregate of more than $1 million.
With respect to 14 of these investors, 1 Cole was found guilty of 14 counts of selling securities by means of false statements or omissions in violation of Corporations Code 2 section 25401 and 14 counts of selling a security without a broker-dealer license in violation of section 25210. Robles was found guilty…
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