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U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Daniel Fingerhut, et al., Case No. 20-CV-21887-DPG (S.D. Fla.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Todays Growth Consultant, LLC d/b/a The Income Store, et al., Case No. 19-CV-08454-ARW (N.D. Ill.)
Federal Trade Commission v. On Point Global, LLC, et al., Case No. 19-CV-25046-SCOLA (S.D. Fla.)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Timothy Joseph Atkinson, et al., Case No. 18-CV-23992-JEM (S.D. Fla.)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Jason B. Scharf, et al., Case No. 17-cv-774-J-32MCR (M.D. Fla.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Onix Capital LLC, et al., Case No. 16-CV-24678-COOKE/TORRES (S.D. Fla.)
Federal Trade Commission v. Consumer Collection Advocates, et al., Case No. 14-62491-CIV-BLOOM (S.D. Fla.)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Worth Group, Inc., et al., Case No. 9:13-cv-80796-KLR (S.D. Fla.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. We the People Inc., of the United States., Case No. 2:13-cv-14050-JEM (S.D. Fla.)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Hunter Wise Commodities, LLC, et al., Case No. 9:12-cv 81311-DMM (S.D. Fla.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Aubrey Lee Price, et al., Case No. 1:12-cv-2296-TCB (N.D. Ga.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Marc Roup, et al., Case No. 09-CD-01685 (W.D. Pa.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Sean Nathan Healy, et al., Case No. 09-CV-1130 (M.D. Pa.)
Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Sean Nathan Healy, et al., Case No. 09-CV-1331 (M.D. Pa.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Charles O. Morgan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Frederick J. Kunen, Case No. 07-22204-CIV-Gold/Turnoff (S.D. Fla.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Terry E. Provence and DT Capital, LLC, Case No. 07-23167-Gold/Turnoff (S.D. Fla.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Viatical Capital, Inc., et al., Case No. 03-CV-1895-T-23-TGW (M.D. Fla.)
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Pension Fund of America, L.C., et al., Case No. 05-20863-CIV-Moore (S.D. Fla.)
Mr. Murena is a Federal and State Court-appointed Receiver, Receiver’s counsel, and business litigator with extensive experience in both Federal and State Court, at the trial and appellate levels. He has spent most of his career representing Federal and State Court-appointed Receivers, Monitors, and other fiduciaries, as well as defrauded investors, in government enforcement actions brought by the SEC, CFTC and FTC based on securities, commodities and consumer fraud and in asset recovery litigation and class actions arising therefrom.
Mr. Murena also represents investors, who were defrauded in connection with seeking permanent residency under the federal EB-5 program, in actions against the perpetrators of the fraudulent schemes and SEC whistleblower proceedings. In addition to representing defrauded investors, Mr. Murena represents individuals, small businesses, and public companies in litigation matters involving financial fraud, business torts, secured transactions, and real property.
In Bankruptcy Court, Mr. Murena routinely represents Trustees in bankruptcy cases and adversary proceedings and has represented a broad range of interests in Chapter 11 reorganizations and liquidations, including Liquidating Trustees, Creditors Committees, individual and corporate creditors, and corporate debtors-in-possession. And, in Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors proceedings, Mr. Murena has significant experience serving as (i) the Assignee, tasked with operating, winding down or selling the subject company, liquidating its assets, and distributing the proceeds to creditors, (ii) counsel for the subject company, and (iii) counsel for the purchaser of the subject company or its assets.
After graduating from law school in 1998, Mr. Murena served as the Law Clerk to the Honorable Paul G. Hyman, Jr., United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of Florida. Subsequently, he joined a prominent Miami-based law firm and focused his practice on complex commercial litigation, receiverships and bankruptcy.
Mr. Murena was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1998 and is licensed to practice in all state and federal courts in Florida and the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Eleventh Circuits. Mr. Murena received his law degree from the University of Florida College of Law (J.D., 1998), where he served as the Senior Articles Editor of the Florida Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida College of Liberal Arts & Sciences (B.A., with honors, Phi Beta Kappa, 1995), graduating in the top 1% of his class.
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