SEC sues adviser for ‘a string of frauds’

Beginning in or about 2007, Hu and others at IIG engaged in a practice of hiding losses in the TOF portfolio by overvaluing troubled loans and replacing defaulted loans with fake “performing” loan assets. When it was necessary to create liquidity, including to meet redemption requests, Hu would cause IIG to sell the overvalued and/or fictitious loans to new investors, including, ultimately, to GTFF and STFF, and use the proceeds to generate the necessary liquidity required to pay off earlier investors