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Securities Fraud

Along with their owner, Howard Capital Holdings and Optimal Economics Capital Partners, all of Dallas, took $13 million from investors in an “egregious fraud,” the SEC claims in a federal complaint.

DALLAS – Patrick O. Howard and his companies Howard Capital Holdings and Optimal Economics Capital Partners, all of Dallas, took $13 million from investors in an “egregious fraud,” the SEC claims in a federal complaint.

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