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| 01/30/2026 | NACLB, CCTG returned to Roglieri |
| 11/13/2025 | Roglieri pleads guilty |
| 05/23/2025 | Roglieri's COO pleads guilty |
| 03/28/2025 | Roglieri's mansion for sale |
| 01/31/2025 | Roglieri to stay in jail until trial |
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National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers LLC Back in Roglieri’s Hands
February 5, 2026The United States Bankruptcy Court ordered the Roglieri Estate return its interest in the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers LLC back to Roglieri himself. The order was dated January 30, 2026. That interest includes all the assets and liabilities attached to the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers LLC. The Trustee’s reasoning was that management over the business had become burdensome to the Roglieri Estate.
Nearly two years ago, Roglieri declared in a bankruptcy filing that National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers LLC (often referred to as NACLB) was valued at $1 million.
Roglieri is currently imprisoned at the Rensselaer County Correctional Facility. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy this past November. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 11 and he is facing up to 20 years in prison.
Several Businesses that Belonged to Kris Roglieri Are Being Returned to Him for Free
January 30, 2026A United States Bankruptcy Court has ordered that the following businesses be released from the bankruptcy estate of Kris Roglieri and returned to Roglieri:
- National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers
- Commercial Capital Training Group
- Digital Marketing Training Group
- FUPME, LLC
- Shark Ventures LLC
The order is dated today, 1/30/26. The trustee’s reasoning for release is that the continued retention of these non-debtor interests are burdensome to the estate.
For full disclosure, the parent company of deBanked, Raharney Capital, LLC, had made a bid for two of the above entities and/or assets but withdrew it after the Trustee placed conditions on a sale that it would not agree to. Raharney Capital had also previously won the auction conducted for the Commercial Capital Training Group trademark but the sale was rescinded by the Trustee after claiming it had been auctioned off in error. The trademark (not the business) for National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers was apparently successfully sold off to a third party.
Roglieri had claimed in a March 22, 2024 bankruptcy declaration that the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers business was valued at $1 million and that the Commercial Capital Training Group business was valued at $500,000. His interest in those businesses are now being returned to him by the Trustee at no cost.
Roglieri is currently imprisoned at the Rensselaer County Correctional Facility. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy this past November. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 11 and he is facing up to 20 years in prison.
Kris Roglieri Alleged to Have Transferred Assets to Third Parties
August 16, 2024The Chapter 7 Trustee managing the personal bankruptcy of Kris Roglieri brought new information to light on Thursday by alleging that Roglieri lied heavily in his original bankruptcy petition. In addition to hiding assets, income, expenses, debts, gifts, and records from the bankruptcy process in part by running them through many business entities he owned, he also moved funds from his personal account into his Commercial Capital Training Group, LLC (CCTG) bank account just weeks before filing for personal Chapter 11 bankruptcy back in February. From there, assets from CCTG and assets from the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers, LLC (NACLB), another business he owned, were transferred to third parties to be preserved as safekeeping for Roglieri’s own benefit.
“[Roglieri] thereafter transferred the assets including without limitation operations, funds, good will, client lists, and other personal property of Commercial Capital Training Group, LLC and the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers, LLC to third parties,” the Trustee wrote. “[Roglieri] facilitated the transfer of assets from the Debtor Entities to dissipate the value of the Debtor membership interest in the Debtor Entities as a potential source of payment to creditors of the Debtor bankruptcy estate.”
On May 15, deBanked reported that the NACLB Conference had changed its name to Commercial Loan Broker Association (CLBA).
“The third parties are preserving the value of the transferred assets for the benefit of the Debtor,” the Trustee wrote. Assets belonging to the Roglieri estate were to have been turned over to the Trustee but were not.
Roglieri allegedly “facilitated the transfer of assets, including operations, funds, goodwill, client lists, and other personal property of Prime Commercial Lending, LLC to third parties” as well.
The Trustee has asked the Court to deny Roglieri a discharge of his bankruptcy. The full complaint can be viewed here.
Kris Roglieri To Stay in Prison Indefinitely After Shocking Development
June 3, 2024Add credible threats to murder an FBI agent to the list of scandalous accolades that Kris Roglieri has racked up in recent months. On Monday, prosecutors revealed the rationale behind the unusual demand to have him detained for what is seemingly a white collar crime, and that is that he has become dangerous. According to calls and emails Roglieri had with an unnamed friend, he said would “take out” a judge and a receiver, that he was going to “wack anybody” that went after him, and that he had determined the home address of one of the FBI agents investigating him and that he planned to put a bullet in their head.
“when someone takes everything away from you . . . if I go down, everyone goes down,” he said.
When the FBI became fully aware of the circumstances, he was arrested and taken into custody on May 31 on a single charge of wire fraud. It is likely that more charges will follow given that more than $100 million of the funds he took from customers remain unaccounted for. Nevertheless, prosecutors used the danger he posed to secure his temporary detainment without bail and on Monday he was ordered to remain in prison indefinitely while awaiting trial. He is being represented by a public defender.
Meanwhile, Roglieri’s company Prime Capital Ventures has been in receivership while he himself is in Chapter 7. In the latter case, he was recently ordered to turn over all his assets, including ownership of his businesses. One of those businesses, NACLB, announced prior to the order that it was rebranding to a different name, was still accepting payments from customers, and that it was exciting to still be moving forward.
Kris Roglieri Arrested for Wire Fraud, in Jail
June 1, 2024Update: Roglieri to stay in prison indefinitely while awaiting trial after shocking revelations.
Kris Roglieri has been arrested by the FBI for wire fraud. He is currently in jail pending a June 3 hearing. The sealed criminal complaint was unsealed on Friday May 31 after months of news headlines and civil court proceedings revealed that his commercial lending business may have actually been operating as a fraudulent ponzi scheme. More than $100 million of customer funds are alleged to have gone missing. Roglieri himself is in personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
The criminal complaint focuses on just one alleged crime, however, wire fraud for how Roglieri dealt with a client named 1800 Park Avenue LLC. As part of that, Roglieri committed to fund a $98.9M line of credit to 1800 Park in exchange for a $5M upfront interest payment that would purportedly be held in trust. Roglieri is then alleged to have misappropriated all the funds for his own personal use.
Among all the former clients of Roglieri claiming they were victims of fraud, 1800 Park was one of the last to enter the picture. 1800 Park didn’t file its civil suit until April 3, months after several others, where it not only named Roglieri and his companies Prime Commercial Lending, LLC and Prime Capital Ventures, LLC as co-defendants but also three of Roglieri’s employees. Roglieri was the only person named in the criminal complaint, however.
Although Roglieri had represented in his Chapter 11 bankruptcy (now converted to Chapter 7) that his businesses had stopped operating, one of those businesses (NACLB) has publicly represented that it had merely rebranded to a new name, and it is still soliciting payments from potential customers under that name.
Kris Roglieri Bankruptcy Converted to Chapter 7, The End of NACLB?
May 15, 2024
A judge approved a motion to convert the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding for the embattled Kris Roglieri to a Chapter 7. The intent behind this is to kickstart the process to sell off Roglieri’s assets for the benefit of creditors whereas before Roglieri hoped that his various wholly owned businesses could somehow continue. The trustee, however, said that such an outcome was impossible given that Roglieri did not maintain financial records, has no revenue coming in, is being investigated by the FBI for ~$100 million in allegedly missing customer funds, and has no path forward. The creditors at issue in the matter felt similarly.
Among Roglieri’s wholly owned assets are Commercial Capital Training Group and the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers (NACLB conference), according to documents he previously submitted to the court. He owns 100% of the membership interest in each LLC. During a prior hearing, the Chapter 11 trustee asked Roglieri if he understood that he could not transfer NACLB’s assets without trustee approval after rumors swirled that he was trying to sell it. At the time, Roglieri said that there had been no serious talks in that regard. It may have been a hard sell and could still continue to be. Despite the NACLB conference’s longevity, for example, Roglieri asserted during the proceedings that he did not maintain formal financial records for it and there are no balance sheets, P&Ls, or statement of cash flows related to it. It also apparently stiffed the venue of its last event since it lists an unpaid debt of $436,237 to Caesars Entertainment in Las Vegas.
The NACLB conference has also apparently changed its name in order to distance itself from its connection with Roglieri, according to emails reviewed by deBanked. On March 25, an official NACLB mass email communication asserted that the conference would go forward “despite uncertainties surrounding this year’s event due to unrelated legal issues” and that “we are thrilled to announce that the annual conference will proceed this November under a new rebranded name, maintaining the trusted team that has organized the event for the past 9 years.”
Following that, an official NACLB conference representative sent out emails affirming that it was rebranding to the “Commercial Loan Broker Association” and that the conference would actually take place in a new location with a different date.
The Receiver managing Prime Capital Ventures, LLC, the main entity at the heart of the Roglieri saga, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for it on Tuesday. As part of that, he stated that the entity owes more than $100 million to its creditors.
Update on the Kris Roglieri Saga
April 24, 2024
The trustee overseeing Kris Roglieri’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case asked the Court on Tuesday to convert it to a Chapter 7. That’s because among the facts to come out of that and related proceedings thus far is that Roglieri did not ever maintain financial records for his various business entities, has no revenue coming in, and has no path to keeping his businesses going. The trustee also noted the added complexity of an FBI investigation and that the Receiver in a related civil case believes Roglieri owes creditors more than $100 million, funds that were allegedly derived from a ponzi scheme.
A Chapter 7 is a liquidation. The Court still has to approve it. A Chapter 7 trustee would have added powers that allows them to pursue assets for the benefit of creditors. The assets would be sold off.
Up until at least one month ago, Roglieri’s wholly owned business, the National Alliance of Commercial Loan Brokers conference (NACLB), was still soliciting for sponsorships. However, the ability to purchase tickets was shut off in early April and as of last week the conference website has gone completely offline. Roglieri previously attested that $436,237 was outstanding and due to Caesars Entertainment in Las Vegas for their 2023 conference. The Receiver in the Prime Capital Ventures case has also argued that the NACLB bank account had been the recipient of at least $20,000 in allegedly misappropriated funds and that $200,000 had been withdrawn from the NACLB’s bank account to aid in the present legal defense of Roglieri.
A Conference Tale: Broker Fair vs. deBanked CONNECT
February 11, 2026Before Broker Fair was ever decided upon as a conference name it had been put up on a whiteboard next to another possibility, Broker Fest. This was in mid-2017 when there was no guarantee that we’d ever get the chance to do more than one conference. Fair was ultimately chosen over Fest because it sounded more professional, like a job fair. Fest sounded like Spring Break and not the image I wanted. We also picked a date for this Broker Fair—May 14, 2018—and a venue. We chose to have it in New York City because the overwhelming majority of deBanked readers were located in the New York Tri-State area. The thought process was that it would be just a walk, drive, or train away for most attendees and they would not need to concern themselves with the cost of flights or hotels.
Although this is not widely known, the biggest problem we immediately faced was that we had been front-run. A competitor, someone from outside the industry, tried to strike first, and announced a conference custom-tailored to our audience for January 2018 in New York City, five months before ours. Having nearly a year to market and plan our first ever conference suddenly became a huge liability. As our advertisers got called and solicited to sponsor that instead of Broker Fair, we had been advised that we had already lost the war before ever even firing a shot.
But having been a regular on the conference circuit myself, I couldn’t help but think that New York City was a terrible place to invite people to in January. That got us thinking about a counter-offensive. Our data indicated that after New York, the Miami area contained the next highest concentration of deBanked readers. After that was Southern California. And after that was Toronto, Canada. By October 2017, we came up with a concept to do something smaller than a conference, a networking event focused simply on connections that didn’t necessarily have to be broker-branded. We called it deBanked CONNECT MIAMI. I believed that executing something like that would also build confidence in the market that we could attract a big crowd, a proof-of-concept so to speak for anyone unsure if deBanked’s online audience would convert to an in-person one. And so we rented out a rooftop bar in South Beach and scheduled the first deBanked CONNECT MIAMI to take place January 2018 (a good time to be in Florida), the same month as that other conference in New York. Our networking event was a smashing success, so much so that we got front-run AGAIN. Since our event was known to be on the rooftop, yet another newly announced rival rented out the bar on the ground floor to try and divert people away from ours to theirs. Thankfully it didn’t work. Meanwhile, our competitor in New York never had a second conference.
With the path seemingly cleared for Broker Fair, we apparently then irked the ire of Kris Roglieri, the head of NACLB, by saying that our conference would be “the largest gathering of merchant cash advance and business loan brokers in the country.” Although our audience and theirs did not overlap at the time, their email marketing shifted to throwing shade at us for no reason. It seemed, however, that it inadvertently helped us, because by March 30, 2018 we ran into another problem I had not imagined, we were already sold out. Sold out in that if the venue found out how many tickets we had sold versus how many they were physically allowed to have in the space, we were going to get in very big trouble sold out. This was 45 days before the conference!
Being sold out only increased the hype and I didn’t know what to do. Broker conferences didn’t sell out. That wasn’t a thing. Now it had legitimately happened. People noticed and the world began to change. Within two weeks, the National Association of Equipment Leasing Brokers changed its name to the American Association of Commercial Finance Brokers. They said the time had come to be more inclusive of all commercial finance brokers. Others would eventually follow suit.
After we managed to pull off Broker Fair 2018, with a lot of hiccups along the way, we decided that we’d continue to do smaller networking events, including Miami. They’d be deBanked CONNECT MIAMI, deBanked CONNECT San Diego, and deBanked CONNECT Toronto. We also decided to add content and speakers to the mix as well. deBanked CONNECT San Diego 2018 attracted 344 people while deBanked CONNECT MIAMI 2019 brought in 461, a number that shocked us because we had envisioned it as something small and the turnout was in fact very large. For a long time we underestimated registrations and we constantly had to contend with spaces that were too small and sold out signs on our website.
deBanked CONNECT MIAMI 2019 was also the first time we heard people refer to it as Broker Fair Miami. This I guess made sense, because that is what it was fast becoming, but to have every event mimic the New York format with a full day of speakers and pre-show party the night before seemed daunting so I hesitated to change the name of deBanked CONNECT MIAMI to Broker Fair Miami when the formats were slightly different. I also didn’t want to take away from New York being known as the “signature” conference. The demographics were essentially the same, however, and the Broker Fair name seemed to easily roll off the tongue. Americans showing up to deBanked CONNECT Toronto, for example, said that they were excited to be at Broker Fair Canada. deBanked CONNECT San Diego you say? That got referred to as Broker Fair San Diego.
The most striking moment of them all, however, happened after we moved all of our cryptocurrency content off into another brand, one we called deCashed instead of deBanked. deBanked’s wide variety of content had grown an entire following outside of just small business finance and resulted in the experiment of an entirely unrelated networking event in May 2022 called by the same name, deCashed. Although it had a large turnout from the crypto industry, and it was only about crypto, dozens of people from the small business lending space assumed it was effectively Broker Fair Bitcoin, with some attendees flying in from as far as Europe, Canada, and California to say they were excited to be at their first Broker Fair.
Alas, the only event truly called Broker Fair these days remains to be the annual show in New York City (next one is June 1, 2026). deBanked CONNECT MIAMI has now become the biggest of the year, however, surpassing every other event. deBanked CONNECT MIAMI is projected to have more than 1,000 attendees this week. Meanwhile, deBanked CONNECT Toronto got nixed due to Covid and deBanked CONNECT San Diego was replaced by B2B Finance Expo in Las Vegas. The latter one now being a collaboration with a major trade association.
Today, there’s a lot of new events popping up with the word Broker in the name. I’m not surprised. It’s a very important profession. And if you feel the urge to label deBanked CONNECT MIAMI as Broker Fair Miami, you’ll be forgiven. It just means that back in 2017 we did a really good job in picking a name that would stick. On the other hand, perhaps we goofed. It’s become obvious that inside of every deBanked CONNECT MIAMI is a little taste of getting away, like you’re going on Spring Break, something that feels more sensational than a fair. If only there were a word for what it could have been…
See you there.
