{"id":8132,"date":"2018-03-14T18:09:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2982928&amp;preview_id=2982928"},"modified":"2018-03-14T18:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T18:09:17","slug":"marijuana-moguls-home-in-snowmass-exempt-from-judges-asset-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-moguls-home-in-snowmass-exempt-from-judges-asset-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana mogul\u2019s home in Snowmass exempt from judge\u2019s asset freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/marijuana-moguls-home-in-snowmass-exempt-from-judges-asset-freeze\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Mar 14, 2018, 10:15 am \u2022 Updated: Mar 14, 2018, 10:15 am <span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Rick Carroll<\/strong>, <em> The Aspen Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">A federal judge in Denver has ruled that more than $3 million in assets held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2018\/03\/08\/snowmass-home-part-sec-fraud-case-marijuana-stock-trader\/100808\/\">Colorado marijuana mogul Jeffrey Friedland be temporarily frozen<\/a>, but not a Snowmass Village home that the Securities &amp; Exchange Commission alleges he concealed through a limited liability company.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100814\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/marijuana-moguls-home-in-snowmass-exempt-from-judges-asset-freeze.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey O. Friedland (Photo provided by The Aspen Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Chief U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger\u2019s ruling Thursday said the SEC failed to adequately provide a strong enough case that the 2,796-square-foot home at 46 Meadow Road actually belongs to Friedman or his wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The\u00a0<a id=\"N0x17ab750N0x16d3950:N0x17ab750N0x1941fc0\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/snowmass-home-part-of-sec-fraud-case-against-marijuana-stock-trader\/\">SEC sued Friedland last week<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. Court of Denver on securities-fraud allegations that he was paid by a marijuana-based pharmaceutical company to tout its stock through blogs, media interviews and other mediums without disclosing that association. Federal securities laws make it illegal to publicize a company\u2019s stock for compensation without disclosing that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Friedland\u2019s company Global Corporate Strategies, also a defendant, allegedly received 5.1 million shares in Israel-based OWC Pharmaceutical Research Corp. as payment for Friedland\u2019s stock-promotion campaign that ran February 2016 through August 2017. Those shares were transferred to an LLC controlled by Friedland\u2019s wife, Kathy, in January 2017, the SEC contends.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/snowmass-home-exempt-from-judges-asset-freeze\/\">AspenTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p> &#013; &#013; <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge in Denver has ruled that more than $3 million in assets held by Colorado marijuana mogul Jeffrey Friedland be temporarily frozen, but not a Snowmass Village home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,851,77,6814,9,5019,7060,7568,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,3424,2655,6819,5022,7062,7569],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}