Legal Opinion
Barry Belmont v. MB Investment Partners, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided February 22, 2013No. 12-1580PublishedCited by 270 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JORDAN, Circuit Judge.
This case arises from a now-defunct Ponzi scheme. The defendants are MB Investment Partners, Inc. (“MB”), a registered investment adviser, and various persons affiliated with MB. The fraudulent scheme was perpetrated by Mark Bloom while he was an employee and officer of MB, through a hedge fund called North Hills, L.P. (“North Hills”) that Bloom controlled and managed outside the scope of his responsibilities at MB. Bloom was arrested and indicted in the Southern District of New York in 2009 on a variety of charges relating to the Ponzi scheme, by…
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