New lawsuit charges the Utah summer-sales-model company with failing to make good on payments to buy out some investors now accused of running a Ponzi scheme
AMERICAN FORK, Utah—Platinum Protection has defaulted on a promissory note of more than $10 million that it agreed to pay when it bought out the company’s startup investors in 2011, a recently filed lawsuit charges.
ALBANY, N.Y.—Security alarm investors Timothy McGinn and David Smith—whom the SEC charged earlier this year with bilking investors of at least $80 million in a Ponzi scheme—are reportedly involved in a new investment venture.
