SEC v. Mina Tadrus and Tadrus Capital LLC (ponzi schemes, 2023)

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In 2023 the SEC sued Mina Tadrus and Tadrus Capital LLC over an alleged fund fraud aimed at a religious community. A final consent judgment against Tadrus was entered on December 12, 2025, with disgorgement of $4,070,350 plus interest of $72,100 treated as satisfied by a criminal restitution order.

The record

What was ordered

Civil penalty

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Disgorgement

$4.1m

Prejudgment interest

$72.1k

Total relief

$4.1m

Alleged gain

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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 August 2, 2023 as release LR-25798. The complaint alleges that Tadrus and his firm raised over $5 million from at least 31 members of a religious community for a fund that was never invested, using at least $1.4 million to pay returns to other investors in Ponzi fashion. A conduct-based injunction and bar are sought, not imposed.

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.

The SEC reported on December 17, 2025 that the Eastern District of New York entered a final consent judgment against Mina Tadrus on December 12, 2025. It follows a bifurcated consent judgment of August 12, 2025, in which he agreed to permanent injunctions, a conduct-based restriction on dealing in securities outside his own account, and an officer-and-director bar. The final judgment orders disgorgement of $4,070,350 and prejudgment interest of $72,100, treated as satisfied by the restitution order in United States v. Tadrus, and turns frozen assets over to the criminal court.

The release does not say how the claims against Tadrus Capital LLC ended, so that defendant was not checked. This case appears twice in the library under releases LR-25798 and LR-25823, which both concern No. 1:23-cv-5708.

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Timeline

1. 2023-08-02 Litigation release published
2. 2025-12-12 Final consent judgment entered against Mina Tadrus

Primary documents

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• SEC litigation release
• SEC litigation release reporting the outcome

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