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Ex-Broker-Dealer CEO From Long Island Charged With Lying To Feds Ex-Broker-Dealer CEO From Long Island Charged With Lying To Feds
Ex-Broker-Dealer CEO From Long Island Charged With Lying To Feds The former CEO and an employee of a broker-dealer firm were arrested this week and charged with allegedly cooking the books and submitting false reports to the SEC. Long Beach resident Alan Seidel, 73, the former CEO of Seidel & Co. LLC, and New Jersey resident Benjamin Mekaway, 37, were arrested on Monday, Dec. 23, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman announced. They were charged with falsifying the books of the company and submitting false reports to the SEC regarding the company’s net capital and staff. Berman said that the two falsified the financial records of the company to obscure the …