CHARLOTTE — On Feb. 22, self-proclaimed Charlotte business consultant Wynn Charlebois received what he himself described as “an extremely alarming” email from a California lawyer representing Nannocare Inc.
The heading in bold read, Re: Notice of Securities Fraud: Immediate Cease and Desist Order; Request for Damages.
“We will be immediately filing a lawsuit against you and WC Private LLC. … seeking an emergency injunction in federal court,” attorney Tal Kapelner wrote in the first line.
Kapelner added that Nannocare, a four-year-old manufacturer of organic sanitary pads, will be “suing for, among other things: 1) Securities Fraud … 2) Identity Theft; 3) Lanham Act (trademark) violations; 4) Forgery, and will be seeking compensatory, special, punitive, and exemplary damages… including but not limited to a disgorgement back to your victims of all proceeds received from your illegal conduct.”
That suit was never filed. But by the time Charlebois responded at 5:39 a.m. the following day he should have felt walls closing in. He had already been putting off a “co-investor” in Nannocare for more than a month. And he had started putting off investors in other purported deals.
And by May 19, at the latest, the other shoe had fallen. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil suit against Charlebois and his company, WC Private. It alleges Charlebois was engaged in a Ponzi scheme since 2019 built on false investment opportunities.
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