Hollywood lawyers won a $2.9 million verdict for four members of a family who said they were defrauded by the owner of a check-cashing business in which they had invested.
The Hausmann family invested more than $570,000 in check-cashing company J&C Connections LLC after coming to know and trust its owner, Rodrigo Aranda. They made the 2013 and 2014 investments through their company, Hausmann Financial Group LLC, after seeing what appeared to be certified financial statements and other documents that showed J&C Connections was making substantial profits, they alleged.
