According to court filings and the defendant's admissions, Rodriguez and his co-conspirator Edwin Carrion founded the Technical Trading Team (TTT) in the spring of 2020. Rodriguez had sole trading authority over the vast majority of the nearly $5 million raised from over 20 individual investors. Rodriguez and Carrion promised investors annual investment returns ranging from 18% to 24% and convinced them to invest based on a number of material misrepresentations.
Miles "Burt" Marshall was widely trusted in upstate New York, promoting an "8% Fund" investment scheme that ultimately proved to be a Ponzi scheme, leading to his bankruptcy.