Financial Advisor Charged with Murder
From the Desk of Jim Eccleston at Eccleston Law LLC:
Keith T. Ashley, a financial advisor who was already under an FBI investigation for an alleged Ponzi scheme, has been charged with murder. Ashley allegedly murdered his client, James Seegan, in February 2020 and then staged the death to look like a suicide, according to an article from InvestmentNews. Investigators allege that Ashley killed Seegan in order to gain control of Seegan’s finances. Ashley was a registered representative with Parkland Securities and a principal of North Texas Money Management.
Ashley was arrested on November 13 on wire fraud charges related to the FBI’s investigation. According to the FBI, Ashley raised $1.3 million from clients and used those funds to pay expenses at his other business as well as for his own personal expenses including legal fees, mortgage payments and spending at casinos. Ashley defrauded investors beginning in 2013 and continuing until May 2020, according to the FBI. The FBI alleged that Ashley solicited investors by making false statements and guaranteeing returns of 3% to 9% per year with no risk to the principal investment. Ashley was terminated from Parkland Securities in October 2020 due to “outside business activities.”
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