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Saturday, February 15, 2020

SEC Bounty Action Rewards and CFTC Bounty Action Rewards Help Regulate the Financial Markets by Anonymous Bounty Action Reward Lawyer

Securities Exchange Commission SEC Bounty Action Rewards and Commodity Future Trading Commission CFTC Bounty Action Rewards Help Regulate the Global Financial Markets by Anonymous Bounty Action Reward Lawyer Jason Coomer

The SEC and CFTC regulate the financial markets in the United States. In regulating these markets and protecting investors, both agencies have vast powers. These powers allow these agencies to enforce illegal conduct throughout the world that impacts the United States financial markets. Further, because of the vast areas that these agencies regulate, they use bounty actions to detect illegal conduct. More specifically, both agencies offer large financial rewards to anonymous whistleblowers who expose significant illegal conduct.  

SEC and CFTC Bounty Actions Help Regulate the Global Financial Markets


SEC Bounty Actions Reward More Than $387 million to Whistleblowers  

SEC Bounty Actions reward more than $387 million to 72 whistleblowers since issuing its first award in 2012. Further, the SEC is actively seeking individuals with original information of significant illegal schemes. Through SEC Bounty Actions these individuals can anonymously expose securities fraud and other illegal conduct through a lawyer and collect large financial rewards.  Further, the SEC commonly works with other governmental agencies including the Commodities Future Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ).  For more information on SEC Bounty Action Rewards, please go to the following web page: SEC ETF Bounty Actions and Market Manipulations and Anonymous Whistleblower Reward Lawyer and SEC Bounty Actions.

CFTC Bounty Actions Reward More Than $100 million to Whistleblowers

CFTC Bounty Actions reward more than $100 million to CFTC whistleblowers who have exposed illegal conduct resulting in over $800 million in fines. Further, the CFTC is actively seeking information regarding money laundering schemes, market manipulation schemes, investment fraud schemes, swap fraud schemes, illegal cryptocurrency and block chain fraud schemes, investment fraud, and other types of illegal conduct that impact our financial markets. The information must be original and given voluntarily. Further, the illegal conduct must result in the recovery of significant funds which are more than $1 million.

Both The SEC and CFTC Work With Whistleblowers and Other Governmental Entities Around the World

Both the SEC and CFTC work with other governmental entities and whistleblowers around the world on illegal international schemes. More specifically, these agencies recently worked with governmental entities in France and Great Britain to impose over $4 billion in fines on a large multinational corporation.  Since December 2019 these agencies have worked with other agencies across international borders to recover over $5 billion.  These multi-agency efforts and cooperation exposed international illegal bribery schemes that resulted in significant fines and penalties.

Further, these bounty actions also regulate illegal conduct that originates in other countries, but impact the financial markets in the United States. More specifically, international whistleblowers can earn large financial rewards by exposing illegal investment fraud schemes made by foreign investors as well as other illegal conduct made by multinational corporations that are publicly traded in the United States or do significant business in the United States.  For more information on this topic, please go to the following web page: International Whistleblower Rewards and Anonymous Reporting.

Monday, February 10, 2020

Weed Killer Cancer Alert: Exposure to Glyphosate Weed Killers May Cause Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell, Hairy Cell, or Myeloid) and Multiple Myeloma by Texas Weed Killer Cancer Lawyer

Weed Killer Cancer Alert: Exposure to Glyphosate Weed Killers May Cause Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia, and Multiple Myeloma by Texas Weed Killer Cancer Lawyer Jason Coomer

Recent scientific studies have determined several herbicides including Roundup weed killer and other weed killing products containing glyphosate are carcinogenic to humans.  Significant exposure to these herbicides can cause Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B-Cell, T-Cell,  Hairy Cell, or Myeloid), or Multiple Myeloma.  Anyone diagnosed with these types of cancer should be aware of any exposure to weed killer they may have had or may be receiving.

Ranchers and agricultural workers are among the groups of people that may have been exposed to Glyphosate.

Exposure to Weed Killer and Herbicides

The most common exposure to weed killers containing Glyphosate occurs to people who commonly use the products. This group of people includes farmers, groundskeepers, gardeners, ranchers, agricultural workers, commercial gardeners, horticulturists, and anyone else who has regularly used Roundup or other weed killers with glyphosate.  In addition to people who directly used weed killer, many others may have been exposed to glyphosate through their well water or living in areas where high amounts of weed killer was commonly used.

People Diagnosed With Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) and Multiple Myeloma

Anyone who has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma should be aware of any continued exposure. Further, anyone who has been diagnosed with  Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma may have a potential claim for compensation and should determine what exposure they may have had to weed killers containing glyphosate.


Families of People Who Have Died From Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma

Families of anyone who has died from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma also may have a viable claim against the manufacturers of glyphosate products including Roundup Weed Killer. These families should determine what exposure their deceased family member had to determine if they may have a potential claim.


Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma Lawsuits

Many Weed Killer Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma Lawsuits are currently pending. These lawsuits are considered a mass tort and thousands of them are being filed. If you or your family have suffered from exposure to weed killer and have been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma Lawsuits, it is important not to delay in filing your claim.  Many settlement groups have already closed and several more groups will close in the near future. It is important to make sure that you or your family do not miss potential deadlines or statutes to file a claim or lawsuit.

For more information on Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma,  Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) or Multiple Myeloma Lawsuits, please go to the following web page: Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Lawsuit InformationLymphatic Cancer and Leukemia (Lymphocytic, B Cell, T Cell,  Hairy Cell, Mantle Cell, or Myeloid) Lawsuit Information, or Multiple Myeloma Lawsuit Information.

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Texas Forged Deed Law

Under Texas law, any person who forges a Texas real property deed commits a crime. Further, forged deeds pass no title to real property. That being said, if someone forges a deed to your real property, contact a Texas forged deed lawyer to clear title and reclaim your property. It is important not to delay in reclaiming your real property and to understand Texas forged deed law and Texas real estate fraud law.


Texas Forged Deed Law Helps Landowners Reclaim Real Property

Proving Forgery In Civil Lawsuits

Forgery occurs when a person executes a document in the name of another person. In a civil forgery lawsuit, typically a handwriting expert and witnesses testify as to if a document has been forged. Further, a criminal conviction can provide additional evidence of forgery. More specifically, Section 32.21(a) of the Texas Penal Code contains a statutory definition for criminal forgery. Under this statute the term “Forge” means to alter, make, complete, execute, or authenticate any writing so that it purports:
(i) to be the act of another who did not authorize that act;
(ii) to have been executed at a time or place or in a numbered sequence other than was in fact the case; or
(iii) to be a copy of an original when no such original existed;


Under Texas Forged Deed Law A Forged Deed Passes No Title

A void instrument passes no title, and is treated as a nullity. A forged deed is void ab initio. Lighthouse Church of Cloverleaf v. Tex. Bank, 889 S.W.2d 595, 601 (Tex.App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1994, writ denied); Dwairy v. Lopez, 243 S.W.3d 710, 712 (Tex. App.-San Antonio 2007, no pet.) (citing Hennessy v. Blair, 173 S.W. 871, 874 (Tex. 1915)); see also Commonwealth Land Title Ins. Co. v. Nelson, 889 S.W.2d 312, 318 (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 1994, writ denied) (“when a document is void or void ab initio it is as if it did not exist because it has no effect from the outset”). 

Forged Deeds Versus Real Estate Fraud

Courts treat forged real estate deeds differently from real estate taken by fraud. Where forged deeds are void, a fraudulent deed, however, is merely voidable. Further, a fraudulent deed will stand until set aside or invalidated by the Court. Ford v. Exxon Mobil Chem. Co., 235 S.W.3d 615, 618 (Tex.2007). 

More Information of Texas Forged Deed Law and Texas Real Estate Law

For more information on reclaiming Texas real property through Texas Forged Deed Law and Texas Fraudulent Deed Law, please go to the following webpages: Texas Real Estate Fraud Lawyer, Texas Partition Action Lawyer, and Texas Adverse Possession Lawyer.