Oddball stories from 2010
Larry Wilcox played a law enforcement official on TV. But in October, this former star of the hit show 'CHiPS' found himself knee deep in trouble with the law.
Indeed, the SEC slapped Wilcox — or 'Jon Baker' to cop-show lovers — with fraud charges for his role in an alleged penny stock kickback scheme. In a sting operation that read like something from of a '70s cop show, the FBI snared a dozen potential lawbreakers involved in alleged schemes to boost the share prices of penny stock companies. The SEC claims the actor participated in interrelated kickback schemes with two other penny stock company executives. Wilcox is president and chief executive of UC Hub Group Inc., a mining and precious metals specialist founded in 1999. His last credited acting appearance was in the movie “The Thundering 8th,” which was released in 2000.