Ponzi Schemes

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• Inside the Bernie Madoff Tchotchke Auction [Gawker Exclusive]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 871
  Bernie Madoff , the most successful fraudster in US financial history, is in jail. Everything he once owned went on the auction block today. Hunter Walker was there to watch people purchase souvenirs of the American financial collapse. The U.S. Marshals Service auctioned off 188 items seized from Madoffs many ...
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• Court grants continuance to Cosmo

  
  Long Island Business News — Authority: 490
  The trial of what’s alleged to be the largest fraud ever perpetrated by a Long Island company will have to wait until after the holidays.Agape World founder Nicholas Cosmo, who is accused of swindling more than $400 million from thousands of investors, was granted a continuance of his pre-trial status conference ...
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• Two Are Charged With Helping Madoff Falsify Records

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 145
  The F.B.I. arrested two computer programmers who worked for Bernard L. Madoff’s investment firm, prosecutors said on Friday.
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• Alleged Operator of Tennessee-based Ponzi Expected to Plead Guilty

  
  Investor's Watchblog — Authority: 124
  Dennis Bolze told prospective investors that he was a successful stock trader.  More than 100 people believed him.  Operating from offices in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, he ultimately raised approximately $20 million, more than enough to build a 16,000 square foot mansion and treat himself to finest of what money can ...
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• Wilpon Firm Challenges Finding by Trustee in Madoff Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The investment firm controlled by Fred Wilpon, the principal owner of the Mets, said it lost money in the Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff.
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• Wilpon Firm Challenges Finding by Trustee in Madoff Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The investment firm controlled by Fred Wilpon, the principal owner of the Mets, said it lost money in the Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Bernard L. Madoff.
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• A Peek Behind the Curtain

  
  Investor's Watchblog — Authority: 124
  We constantly stress that scam artists are better prepared than you think, willing to go to any lengths to create the illusion of legitimacy.  They cover their bases and are prepared to meet the challenges of even the most skeptical investors.  The details of  Mark Dreier’s  $700 million promissory note scam ...
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• Believing in climate change: Gaia worship, not science

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 507
  George Jonas has another great piece in the National Post: Science is only human . My favourite parts: The starter’s gun went off. While Science was fiddling with its shoelaces, Ideology was halfway around the track. And this: Climate change is statism’s Trojan Horse for boosting government, diminishing ...
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• Trustee May Win Billions for Investors in Madoff

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The Madoff trustee has demanded the return of $7 billion he says Jeffry M. Picower and his wife withdrew from their accounts over decades.
  6 days ago

• Trustee May Win Billions for Investors in Madoff

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Jeffry M. Picower, a longtime investor in Bernard L. Madoffs fraud scheme who died in his Palm Beach swimming pool last month, left an estate with assets far in excess of $1 billion - and that could be a spot of good news for Mr. Madoffs victims.
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• Fraud Accusations Against Florida Lawyer Set Off a Race to Return His Donations

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Scott Rothstein is under scrutiny after federal authorities began investigating whether he defrauded investors of about $100 million with a Ponzi scheme based on selling legal settlements.
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• Madoff’s Accountant Pleads Guilty in Scheme

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  David G. Friehling pleaded guilty to nine criminal charges carrying a potential prison term of 114 years.
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• Madoffs Accountant Pleads Guilty in Scheme

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  Bernard L. Madoffs longtime accountant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to deliberately producing the rubber-stamp audits that helped Mr. Madoff conceal his enormous Ponzi scheme from regulators for nearly 20 years.
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• Former Broker Pleads Guilty in Ponzi Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  Kosta S. Kovachev could be sentenced to a total of 25 years for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud.
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• No More Sir Allen: Stanford Loses Knighthood

  
  DealBook — Authority: 772
  The jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford is being stripped of his knighthood in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, the head of the government panel that approves the awards said Monday.
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• Page Perrys Market Monitor - October 30, 2009

  
  Investment Fraud Lawyer Blog — Authority: 422
  There have been various developments over the past several weeks which investors may consider relevant in allocating their resources or evaluating alternatives that are available to them. Some of the more significant developments include, but are not limited to, the following: • The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Transcripts, Madoff Called S.E.C. Exams ‘a Nightmare’

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The S.E.C.’s investigation of Bernard L. Madoff includes an interview in which he expressed amazement that regulators failed so many times to detect his fraud.
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• Officials Say Madoff Accountant Will Plead Guilty

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 914
  The plea is expected next week as part of a cooperation deal with federal prosecutors.
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• Cosmo’s Louisiana land nets $850K for bankruptcy trustee

  
  Long Island Business News — Authority: 490
  A Mississippi River tugboat company paid $850,000 for a 25-acre industrial property in southern Louisiana owned by Agape World, the Hauppauge-based company run by alleged Ponzi-schemer Nicholas Cosmo.Gordon Konrad, chief of Belle Chasse Marine Transportation in Jefferson, La., was the winning bidder for the land ...
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• Madoff Victims Receive First Repayment Of $534 Million [Ponzi Schemes]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 776
  The trustee whos liquidating Bernie Madoffs firm has released $534.2 million in repayments to some of his victims, reports Bloomberg. The half-billion is a drop in the bucket of total verified losses, which are now more than $21 billion. But hey, those 1,558 victims whose claims were approved for this partial payout ...
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