Enforcement Actions Criminal Civil

William N. Kirshner , of Corpus Christi, Texas, was reindicted on May 17, 2007, in Cause No. 06-CR-4248A (S1), in the 28th District Court of Nueces County, Texas, for on aggregated theft of property valued at $100,000 or more but less than $200,000. Kirshner allegedly engaged in a scheme and...

Susan M. Marshall , of Meadowlakes, Texas, pled guilty on May 11, 2007, in the 33rd District Court of Burnet County, Texas, Cause No. 32526, to first degree theft. Marshall was a party to selling investment agreements through Melvin Dean Marshall's Insurance Company, Marshall Insurance Agency, Inc...

Frederick Otto Delin , of Denison, Texas, was indicted on May 7, 2007, in the 15th District Court of Grayson County, Texas, Cause No. 55950-15, for theft of property with a value greater than or equal to $200,000, and misapplication of fiduciary property from an elderly individual. Delin was...

James C. McCauley of Longview, Texas was indicted on May 2, 2007 in the 76th Judicial District Court in Camp County, Texas, Cause No. CF-07-380, on 26 counts of misapplication of fiduciary property. In all 26 counts the Grand Jury alleged McCauley as a fiduciary or as a person acting in a fiduciary...

Kenneth William Elgin , of Tyler, Texas, doing business as West Coast Resources, Inc. and Trinidad Exploration, Inc., was indicted on May 1, 2007, in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Cause No. 6:07cr43, on charges of wire fraud; transportation of stolen goods, securities, and...

Cynthia Faye Setser , was indicted on April 25, 2007, in Cause No. 3-07CR0140-P, in the United States District Court, Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division, for Failure to Appear. Setser had previously pleaded guilty to securities fraud in Cause No. 3-03:CR-381-M based upon her role in the...

James Howard Vann , of Laguna Vista, Texas, and Frank L. Cohen , of Harlingen, Texas, were each charged with four counts of selling securities without a license and four counts of selling unregistered securities in Cause No. 07-CR-00000674 in a single indictment handed down by the Grand Jury of...

Mark Wayne Jaster , of Grand Prairie, Texas, was indicted on April 3, 2007, in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Texarkana Division, Cause No. 5:07CR10, on 22 counts of wire fraud and aiding and abetting and one count of false personation of an officer of the United States. Doing...

Richard Leal Ferguson of San Benito, Texas, pleaded guilty on March 23, 2007, in the 138th Judicial District of Texas in Cameron County, Cause No. 07-CR-319-B, to theft by deception and misapplication of fiduciary property, both of which are first-degree felonies. Doing business as Access Group of...

Corey Dwayne Minor , of DeSoto, Texas, plead guilty on March 22, 2007, in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division, Cause No. 4:07CR48, to one count of mail fraud. From in or about 2003 through November 2006, Minor defrauded brokerage customers by obtaining money from the...