Pitkin also wants to ban Hicks from working on ANY investment related activities for 10 years.

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Pitkin had originally filed a cease and desist order against the broker dealer side of the hedge funds business.

FORBES: Southridge Hedgie Hicks Shrugs Off Regulators Investor Fraud Suits

The Aspen Pitkin Co. airport is surrounded by high mountains on three sides, so it is in something of a box canyon.

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"The pluses and minuses have evened out, " said John Pitkin, a demographer with private consultancy Analysis and Forecasting, Inc. in Cambridge, Mass.

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Howard Pitkin, head of the CT Department of Banking, has been after Hicks for investor fraud and abuse in its broker dealer business since 2007.

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On top of removing him from his livelihood, they expect him to pay some hefty fees, which Pitkin told me could be in the millions, for breaking the law and lying to investors.

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