( May 22, 2024, 1:42 PM EDT) -- WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A North Carolina federal magistrate judge granted, in part, a joint motion to appear remotely at a hearing scheduled in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s suit alleging that an advisory services company, its former executive and its former owner, who also owned now-insolvent insurers, defrauded clients of more than $75 million, continuing the hearing and requiring the parties to file a joint status report by May 23....