Philip Baker

Philip Baker, who headed a fraudulent hedge fund group that comprised offshore funds and other entities in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison - the maximum that he faced.

Philip Baker's Plea Agreement in a criminal action styled as 'USA v. Philip J. Baker' at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Arrest warrant against Philip Baker for alleged fraud and embezzlement.

Indictment of Philip Baker for alleged investment fraud involving the Lake Shore Group of Companies.

Eight companies domiciled in the British Virgin Islands, four in the Turks and Caicos Islands, and one each in the United States and the United Kingdom have been added as parties in litigation brought by the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission against the Lake Shore group of hedge funds.

A management agreement between a Bermuda corporate services provider and a hedge fund group accused of committing a $100 million-plus fraud against investors was back-dated by two weeks in an attempt to circumvent a restraining order issued by a U. S. federal court, a regulator has claimed. The contract pursuant to which Bermuda-based Mercury Group Limited agreed to provide "office and related facilities and services" to the Lake Shore group was, in reality, entered into on June 29, 2007 - the same day that 38 boxes of Lake Shore records were transferred from Roth Mosey & Partners LP accounting and consulting firm in Canada to MGL in Bermuda, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in a filing on January 9, 2008 at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where it is suing Lake Shore and its principal, Philip Baker, for fraud.

A bank and seven investment funds all domiciled in Caribbean countries are among the 20 largest unsecured creditors of a U. S. based investment adviser that has filed for bankruptcy in Chicago and is being sued for fraud by the

A bank and seven investment funds all domiciled in Caribbean countries are among the 20 largest unsecured creditors of a U. S.-based cash management firm that has filed for bankruptcy in Chicago.

A contempt of court motion has been filed in the United States against a Bermuda-based firm that manages several hedge funds registered in the British Virgin Islands and also has ties to Canada and Switzerland.Lake Shore Asset Management Limited, which is believed to manage at least $466 million, has refused to turn over documents to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in breach of a Statutory Ex-Parte Restraining Order issued seven days earlier, stated the regulator in its contempt motion at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois on July 3, 2007.