{"id":8397,"date":"2019-06-26T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2019-06-26T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T19:06:08","slug":"sec-shuts-down-argyle-coin-ponzi-scheme-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/sec-shuts-down-argyle-coin-ponzi-scheme-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC Shuts Down Argyle Coin Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8399 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Diamond2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Diamonds may still be a \u201cgirl\u2019s best friend,\u201d but for 300 or more investors in the US and Canada, they were allegedly used to defraud investors. This week, the SEC obtained a court order to shut down a Ponzi scheme run by South Florida-based owner Jose Angel Aman, and his company, Argyle Coin for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme. Silver Law Group represents investors in this diamond Ponzi scheme.Using the classic model of collecting money and paying dividends to investors with money from new investors, Aman allegedly diverted much of the collected monies to himself for personal use. The Argyle scheme is tied into two other companies he owns, Natural Diamonds Investment Co., and Eagle Financial Diamond Group Inc. Harold Seigel and Jonathan H. Seigel, two stakeholders in these companies, worked with Aman to perpetuate and continue the scheme. All of the defendants reside in South Florida.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Diamond2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Diamond2-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Diamonds may still be a \u201cgirl\u2019s best friend,\u201d but for 300 or more investors in the US and Canada, they were allegedly used to defraud investors. This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/news\/press-release\/2019-72\" target=\"_blank\">the SEC obtained a court order<\/a> to shut down a Ponzi scheme run by South Florida-based owner Jose Angel Aman, and his company, Argyle Coin for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme. Silver Law Group represents investors in this diamond Ponzi scheme. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/sec-shuts-down-argyle-coin-ponzi-scheme-2\/#more-8397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diamonds may still be a \u201cgirl\u2019s best friend,\u201d but for 300 or more investors in the US and Canada, they were allegedly used to defraud investors. This week, the SEC obtained a court order to shut down a Ponzi scheme run by South Florida-based owner Jose Angel Aman, and his company, Argyle Coin for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme. Silver Law Group represents investors in this diamond Ponzi scheme.Using the classic model of collecting money and paying dividends to investors with money from new investors, Aman allegedly diverted much of the collected monies to himself for personal use. The Argyle scheme is tied into two other companies he owns, Natural Diamonds Investment Co., and Eagle Financial Diamond Group Inc. Harold Seigel and Jonathan H. Seigel, two stakeholders in these companies, worked with Aman to perpetuate and continue the scheme. All of the defendants reside in South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[595,593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-investment-fraud","category-ponzi-schemes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SEC Shuts Down Argyle Coin Ponzi Scheme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The SEC obtained a court order to shut down a Ponzi scheme run by owner Jose Angel Aman, and his company Argyle Coin for allegedly operating a Ponzi scheme.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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