Claimant says: "Sterling Trust/Equity Trust, Waco Texas:
Sterling Trust has perpetuated a massive IRA Self Directed investment fraud that
has resulted in a Ponzi scheme in California. Our investor and IRA trustee used
Sterling Trust to report our investment money for the past 10 years.
Each quarter we received reports on our investment money from Sterling indicating interest accrued andthe total amount of our investment to date.
Once we (Sterling) client's tried to draw from our IRA investments we were informed that ”
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Claimant says: "Sterling Trust/Equity Trust, Waco Texas:
Sterling Trust has perpetuated a massive IRA Self Directed investment fraud that
has resulted in a Ponzi scheme in California. Our investor and IRA trustee used
Sterling Trust to report our investment money for the past 10 years.
Each quarter we received reports on our investment money from Sterling indicating interest accrued andthe total amount of our investment to date.
Once we (Sterling) client's tried to draw from our IRA investments we were informed that they had no value and we would have to discuss the matter with our IRA trustee.
Sterling claims they only reported what the trustee reported to them and they had absolutely no fiduciary responsibility to account for the money reported.
At the time our trustee conducted business with Sterling Trust he was a debarred stock broker, owner of a investment company Capital Investors and a unregistered financial
adviser with more than 19accounts. All these failures listed are illegal acts to conduct business as a trustee for an IRA account. We as a a group lost around 7 million dollars.
Our trustee has recently been indicted by the FBI and has 15 counts of fraud pending.*” ...Show less »