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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Ludwig grants summary judgment to the financial correspondent, the investment firm and the firm's founder the investors claim were involved with their transactions with a wealth management group that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme, which caused the investors to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars. The investors have failed to bring specific evidence of specific wrongdoing by the the correspondent, firm and founder, instead mostly reiterating the wrongdoing of the group and its chief, who is now in prison. The investors' claims of intentional misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, and claims of violations of Wisconsin statutes involving the sale of unregistered securities, fraud and unlicensed brokers fail, and the correspondent, firm and founder are dismissed. The investors have 14 days to make a case for why the firm's employee should not also be granted summary judgment.