EFTA Document EFTA01386063

plaintiffs by failing to disclose a conflict of interest and effectively "forced" the plaintiffs to keep their funds in a failing investment. The plaintiffs claim that the defendants "served as [their] financial investment advisor and broker, as well as providing other financial and banking services to (ppaintiffs, and thereby formed a fiduciary relationship with (p)laintiffs and other investors." (Am.Compl.¶¶ 10, 59-60.) In typical lender-borrower relationships, there is a presumption that