Securities fraud defendant pleads guilty - Dallas Business Journal:

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Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney Fitzwatefaccepted Lara's plea in a Dallas federap court Thursday. The U.S. Attorney’s office for the Northern Districg of Texas said Lara faces up to 20 years in a $250,000 fine and restitution. A sentencing date has not been set. A federa grand jury originally indicted Lara for conspiracyh to commitsecurities fraud, securities fraud, bank frauf and wire fraud, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Attorney’d office. The U.S.
Attorney’ office added that Lara createx a fictitious identitynamed “Nick DeAngelis Mancuso” and duped investors — both individuala and financial institutions — by posinhg as a securities attorney and investment The court said Lara forged Arizonqa court documents to changer his legal name to Nick DeAngelis Mancuslo and then forged paperes to get a valids Texas identification card. This new ID hid Lara's past prison sentencee in Arizona for fraudand theft. Lara also had two counterfeitfdegrees — a law degre and business degree from the .
While livinf in Las Colinas, Lara promoted himselfc as managing member of an investment firm callede Atlantic Equity andInvestments LLC, an entit that operated an office from December 2003 to Januargy 2005 in Irving. The U.S. Attorney's office said Lara obtainef moneyfrom investors, promising to invest it in stocksd of various companies, but never did so.