SEC v. Alexandra Robert, Chalala Academy LLC (ponzi schemes, 2022)

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In July 2022 the SEC charged Alexandra Robert and two entities she ran, Chalala Academy LLC and Lendvesting Academy Corp., over an alleged Ponzi scheme. A consent final judgment filed on November 28, 2022 enjoins Robert and orders disgorgement of $226,223, interest of $17,512.34 and a penalty of $226,223, owed jointly with the two entities. The total of $469,958.34 is payable in five installments.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

$226k

Disgorgement

$226k

Prejudgment interest

$17.5k

Total relief

$470k

Alleged gain

—

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on July 27, 2022 as release LR-25452. The complaint alleges that Robert and two companies raised about $900,000 from 80 investors, including Haitian-American community members, by promising risk-free returns of 10% to 48%, misappropriated the money and made Ponzi-like distributions.

This library tags the matter as a Ponzi scheme because the document describes returns to earlier investors paid from later investors' money, as alleged or found. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

Outcome. The final judgment as to Alexandra Robert (S.D. Fla. No. 9:22-cv-81092, docket entry 19, entered November 28, 2022) was granted on the SEC's unopposed motion and recites that she consented to its entry without admitting or denying the allegations. It enjoins her under the registration and antifraud provisions, bars her from acting as an officer or director of a public company, and makes her jointly and severally liable with Chalala Academy LLC and Lendvesting Academy Corp. for disgorgement of $226,223, prejudgment interest of $17,512.34 and a civil penalty of $226,223, a total of $469,958.34 payable in five installments over about a year. The scanned document was hard to read in places; the figures were read from OCR text and are consistent with the stated total. The motion covered the two entities as well, but I read only the judgment as to Robert, so their separate orders are not described.

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Timeline

1. 2022-07-27 Litigation release published
2. 2022-11-28 Final consent judgment entered as to Alexandra Robert (jointly with Chalala Academy and Lendvesting Academy)

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release
• Final judgment as to Alexandra Robert (S.D. Fla.)

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