( July 19, 2024, 8:27 AM EDT) -- WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A North Carolina federal magistrate judge granted in part a joint motion to extend the case schedule 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 insurers now in receivership, defrauded clients of more than $75 million, allowing an extra 30 days for “additional fact discovery” but keeping the deadline for close of discovery....