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Passaic County Adviser Conned Investors Out Of $471,602, State Authorities Charge Passaic County Adviser Conned Investors Out Of $471,602, State Authorities Charge
Passaic County Adviser Conned Investors Out Of $471,602, State Authorities Charge An investment adviser from Passaic County stole $471,602 from two dozen investors he recruited for an unregulated commodities trading group, state authorities charged. The business he the Think Big Institute was failing when Scott Nicholson, 53, of North Haledon, began to “misappropriate investor monies by withdrawing existing investment monies and new investments for his personal benefit,” state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Over the course of five years, Nicholson transferred $373,823 in investment money to his personal checking account and paid $271,129 worth of personal expens…