One complaint with fraud accusations was filed against Gramercy by two investors in New York State Supreme Court in September 2011.
The accusation was filed Thursday with the State Supreme Court in a petition asking that the award be overturned.
Gary Naftalis, a lawyer for Mr. Gupta, has called the S.E.C. accusations, which were filed on March 1, "totally baseless".
Stephens later recanted his accusation, but two weeks later, another accuser, Cecil Singleton, made similar accusations and lawsuits were filed by attorney Jeffrey Herman against Clash.
Mr. Espada is also facing lesser charges related to accusations that false reports were filed with the state.
Carlisle denied the accusation and no criminal charges were filed.
Just consider: In three years, ethical and criminal accusations have been filed against a number of Mr. McGreevey's fund-raisers, party operatives, staff members and cabinet members; numerous elected officials have been led off to jail.
This seems worth saying since one gets the impression that some bishops, in frantically responding to their earlier neglect, are reversing the old Anglo-Saxon legal principle that a person is innocent until proven guilty, and hastily suspending priests once an accusation has been filed.
The accusation, which was filed as a criminal information, underscores how Swiss bank secrecy continues to flourish despite the recent United States crackdown on UBS, Switzerland's largest bank, in connection with offshore private banking services that enabled wealthy Americans to evade taxes.
The accusation against Mr. Xu was filed during a general crackdown by Chinese authorities on independent activists, and particularly on those activists who receive financing from foreign sources.
