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S.E.C. v. FIRST CHOICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.

No. 11-1702.

678 F.3d 538 (2012)

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. FIRST CHOICE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC., et al., Defendants. SonCo Holdings, LLC, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Joseph D. Bradley, Receiver, and ALCO Oil & Gas Co., LLC, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided May 1, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Cahn , Attorney, Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of the General Counsel, Washington, DC, Charles J. Kerstetter , Attorney, Securities and Exchange Commission, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Shawn F. Sullivan (argued), Attorney, South Bend, IN, for Defendants.

J. Michael Katz (argued), Attorney, Goodman Katz & Scheele, Highland, IN, for Appellee, ALCO Oil & Gas Company LLC.

Shawn F. Sullivan (argued), Attorney, South Bend, IN, for Appellee, Joseph D. Bradley.

Jacqueline S. Homann (argued), J. Thomas Vetne , Attorneys, Jones Obenchain, South Bend, IN, for Intervenor-Appellant.

Before POSNER, RIPPLE, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This case, in the form in which it comes to us (an appeal from a contempt judgment against a company called SonCo Holdings), has a small head but a long tail. It began in 2000 as a suit by the SEC, filed in a federal district court in Indiana, charging fraud in violation of federal securities law. The court appointed a receiver, Joseph Bradley, to take charge of the' assets and distribute them among the victims of the $31 million fraud. Bradley...

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