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Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Private Equity Firm Indicted for Obstruction of Justice

While Employed as an SEC Examiner, Defendant Accessed & Disclosed Confidential Information to the Target of an Investigation...
justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/m…

...in Connection w Taking a Job With that Firm”
“Michael S. Cohn, Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of GPB Capital Holdings, LLC (GPB), with obstruction of justice, unauthorized computer access and unauthorized disclosure of confidential information. Cohn, a former

... employee of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), was arraigned this morning before United States Circuit Judge Joseph F. Bianco and released on a $250,000 bond.”

“prior to leaving the SEC, Cohn accessed information on SEC servers relating to an Enforcement Division investigation into GPB. Cohn was not authorized to access this highly sensitive material, which included confidential information, privileged attorney-client work product...

... contacts with law enforcement and other regulatory agencies. During discussions with GPB personnel about obtaining a job there, Cohn advised them that he had inside information about the SEC’s investigation, and on several occasions he disclosed information to members of...

... GPB’s senior management about that investigation.”
THIS IS SO ILLEGAL

March 2019: investmentnews.com/article/201903…

AUTO DEALERSHIPS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
(I’ll take Mob AF business lines for $1.5billion, Alex)

Whoopsy doodles! FBI paid a visit to one of GPB’s private trash haulers in March 2019.
propublica.org/article/five-s…

AHAHAHAHAHHAHA UNICORN MENTOR MY ASS
March 2018: forbes.com/sites/marcusno…