DRENIS v. HALIGIANNIS

No. 04 Civ. 9263(RJH).

452 F.Supp.2d 418 (2006)

Athanasios DRENIS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Angelo HALIGIANNIS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 25, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Kevin Musoff, Michael T. Stolper, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, Jonathan David Abraham, Abraham & Lerner, LLP, New York, NY, for Plaintiffs.

Maranda E. Fritz, Maranda E. Fritz, P.C., Matthew C. Rueter, Engel & McCarney, David Blasband, Jon Paul Robbins, McLaughlin and Stern, LLP, Bernard Anthony Williams, Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Fred H. Perkins, Morrison Cohen Singer & Weinstein, LLP, New York, NY, Allen R. Morganstern, Morganstern & Quatela, Garden City, NY, Gary M. Kushner, Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn, LLP, Mineola, NY, Leonard E. Lombardi, Law Office of Leonard E. Lombardi, P.C., White Plains, NY, Raymond Scott Lafazia, R. Scott Lafazia, P.C., Little Falls, NJ, for Defendants.

Marilyn Biasucci, Atlantic Beach, NY, pro se.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

HOLWELL, District Judge.

This action, and a related action brought by the Securities Exchange Commission, relate to the operation a hedge fund through which defendant Angelo Haligiannis allegedly perpetrated a "Ponzi scheme," a species of fraud whereby an investment fund that is unprofitable uses money from new investors to pay "false profits" to old investors in order to encourage further investment and sustain the scheme...

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