United States vs Ronald Touchard, et al.
From November 2017 through December 2018, it is alleged that Defendants defrauded investors in a pump-and-dump scheme involving shares of HQ Global Education, Inc.("HQGE") by issuing millions of shares to themselves at little or no cost, then artificially inflated the value of shares through various manipulative trading techniques and fraudulent stock promotions. Once the stock price was inflated, Defendants and their co-conspirators sold their shares to unsuspecting investors while concealing that they were profiting from those sales.
Familiar names: HQ Global Education, Inc. ("HQGE")