Wohl, 21, appeared in court on Wednesday and faces arraignment in October for one count of selling an unregistered security, as first reported by the Daily Beast. He didn’t immediately return a message late Wednesday.

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Wohl’s new legal troubles date back to firms he ran with a partner named Matthew Johnson. Riverside prosecutors began looking into the pair in June 2016 following the complaint from the Arizona man, who is identified only as “David” in court documents.

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In July 2016, a senior investigator with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office contacted Wohl’s firm, Montgomery Assets, posing as a real estate agent representing an investor. Montgomery Assets purported to invest in “real estate, hedge funds” and “private equity,” prosecutors said.

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After chatting with Johnson and Wohl for about a month, the investigator and an undercover Riverside Police detective set up a deal to invest $100,000 in a fund that supposedly bought and flipped derelict houses for a profit. They were promised a 17 percent return in a year, according to court documents.

About a month later, the Arizona Corporation Commission sent Wohl a cease-and-desist order, noting that Montgomery Assets misrepresented its “size, the experience of its employees, and the risk” of its investments. Wohl agreed to a $5,000 fine and $32,000 in restitution in that case — neither of which he had paid as of last June, reported The Washington Post’s Manuel Roig-Franzia and Beth Reinhard.

Wohl defended his business practices at the time, telling The Post that the lack of criminal charges or lawsuits “are good indications I’ve never done anything wrong.”

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In the years since, Wohl made a name for himself, first as an ardent Trump supporter and then as a dirty trickster who openly aimed to sully the reputations of those he saw as the president’s enemies.

Late last year, Wohl and lobbyist Jack Burkman called a news conference and promised testimony from a woman who would claim Mueller had raped her; the woman never showed and Mueller asked the FBI to probe whether the pair offered her money. (They deny doing so.) In April, they gathered reporters again, this time to level sexual assault claims against Buttigieg — even though the supposed victim had already recanted and said he was pressured into making the false claim.

Wohl also wrote a document, reported by the Daily Beast, proposing to raise $1 million to put out false information about Democratic candidates to swing betting markets.

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It’s not clear why California prosecutors waited to file charges, although the case’s three-year statute of limitations was nearly up, according to the Daily Beast.

In court documents, prosecutors say the $100,000 deal “appeared to be an offer to sell a security” by Wohl and Johnson, and the security wasn’t qualified with the California Department of Business Oversight as state law requires.