THE PLOT THICKENS

An amended federal lawsuit unsealed Thursday in Minneapolis added 48 plaintiffs to the nine investors who sued a group of Twin Cities investment advisers in July over a controversial foreign currency investment. It also added three new individual defendants. The defendants in the lawsuit now are:

INDIVIDUALS

•Trevor Cook, a Minneapolis investment adviser

•Patrick Kiley, a Burnsville radio talk show host and investment adviser

•Jason Bo-Alan Beckman, a Minneapolis investment adviser

•Christopher Pettengill, a Plymouth investment adviser

•Gerald Durand, a Lakeville investment adviser

BUSINESS ENTITIES

Oxford Global Advisors, Oxford Global Partners, and Oxford Private Client Group, all at 1900 LaSalle Av. S., Minneapolis

UBFX Diversified, UBS Diversified, Universal Brokerage FX, UBS Diversified FX Advisors, UBS Diversified FX Growth, UBS Diversified FX Management, UBS Diversified Growth, Universal Brokerage Services and UBS REFCO IFX Millennium RJO PRG, all at 12644 Tiffany Court, suite 100, Burnsville.