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Citigroup Global Markets Inc. : MAT Five LLC shares Summary: According to a press release dated May 1, 2008, a class action has been commenced on behalf of all persons or entities who purchased or otherwise acquired shares of MAT Five LLC (“MAT Five”) pursuant and/or traceable to a false and misleading Private Placement Memorandum (“PPM”) on or about December 18, 2006 and/or its Supplements and who were damaged thereby.
The complaint charges MAT Five, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (“Citigroup Global”) (the corporate and capital markets arm of Citigroup, Inc.’s (“Citigroup”) (NYSE:C) Corporate and Investment Banking group), Citigroup Alternative Investments LLC (“CAI”), Citigroup Fixed Income Alternatives (“CFIA”) and Reaz Islam with violations of the Securities Act of 1933 and Delaware law. MAT Five is a limited liability company that makes investments in limited liability company interests issued by Municipal Opportunity Fund Five National (“MOF Five”), a limited liability company that makes leveraged investments in fixed-rate, tax-exempt municipal bonds.
Specifically, the complaint alleges that during late 2006 and continuing into early 2007, Citigroup, through CFIA and CAI, targeted many of its clients who were believed to be interested in fixed-income investments which would provide higher yields. One type of investment Citigroup promoted to its investors was municipal bond opportunities involving the arbitrage of tax-exempt and taxable bonds. These were actually very risky investments which could drop precipitously if the markets changed, or if the investments were not properly managed. Defendants caused the PPM and presentation materials for MAT Five (the “Selling Documents”) to be disseminated beginning in 2006 in connection with the issuance of hundreds of millions of dollars of shares. The Selling Documents were false and misleading in that the strategy to be employed would not protect investors as suggested by the ratings of the underlying investments and defendants did not have risk management practices in place to prevent employees of CAI from engaging in highly risky investment practices. On March 20, 2008, CAI wrote a letter to investors which stated that the recent credit crunch had rapidly accelerated and spread into the municipal bond markets. As a result, the cash positions and net asset values of the MAT Five fund had been severely impacted, and they were going to indefinitely suspend the fund’s income distributions in an effort to preserve liquidity.
INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION:
SIC Code: 6021
Sector: Financial
Industry: Money Center Banks
| COMPANY/ISSUER NAME: | Citigroup Global Markets Inc. |
| COMPANY/ISSUER TICKER: | C |
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| FIRST IDENTIFIED COMPLAINT IN THE DATABASE | |||||||||||||||||
| Marie Raymond Revocable Trust, et al. v. MAT Five LLC, et al. | |||||||||||||||||
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| DOCUMENTS FOR THE FIRST IDENTIFIED COMPLAINT | |||
| Class Action Complaint for Violation of the Federal Securities Laws - Demand for Jury Trial | |||
| Type: Complaint | Date on the document: 5/1/2008 | ||
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