Ponzi Schemes

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• Minnesota Man Convicted in $3.6 Billion Ponzi Scheme

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Prosecutors had accused Mr. Petters of using his company to bilk investors who thought he was buying consumer electronics for resale to retailers.
  3 hours ago

• U.S. Seeks Client Names of Texas Financier

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The Internal Revenue Service is investigating taxpayers who may have been hiding funds offshore through a Stanford unit.
  4 hours ago

• Florida Lawyer Pleads Not Guilty in Fraud Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Scott Rothstein is accused of conspiracy to commit money laundering in a scheme that involved selling legal settlements.
  1 day ago

• National Briefing | South: Florida: Homes Seized in Fraud Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Federal authorities are seizing two Rhode Island houses and a New York City apartment from a Florida lawyer accused of masterminding a $1 billion fraud scheme.
  2 days ago

• Fourth Avenue Built on Ponzid Loot?: Dominic Tonacchio, the Brooklyn developer so...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 680
  Dominic Tonacchio , the Brooklyn developer so very bullish on Fourth Avenue becoming the next Park Avenue, may be involved in a massive Florida Ponzi scheme . Attorney Scott Rothstein is the latest mini-Madoff (his fraud may total up to $1 billion), and as a federal investigation attempts to sort out the mess, a ...
  2 days ago

• Happy Thanksgiving

  
  THE BIZOP NEWS — Authority: 407
  Image by thinkpanama via Flickr From the SEC press release on the Cook and Kiley ponzi scheme. The SEC alleges that from at least July 2006 through at least July 2009, Cook and Kiley, through the Defendant Companies, raised at least $190 million from at least 1,000 investors through the sale of unregistered ...
  6 days ago

• SEC Nails MN-Based Currency Trading Fraud

  
  The Reformed Broker — Authority: 643
  The SEC nailed a Minnesota-based currency fraud today, a bust that I believe will be the opening salvo in a much bigger battle to protect Americans from this burgeoning area of fraud. SEC Obtains Asset Freeze in Minnesota-Based Foreign Currency Trading Scheme FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2009-253 Washington, D.C., ...
  1 week ago

• Louisiana Authorities Nab Alleged Ponzi Operator

  
  Investor's Watchblog — Authority: 125
  In a move that illustrates the importance of state securities regulators, Louisiana prosecutors charged  William J. Chaucer of Ponchatoula, Louisiana with operating a  Ponzi  scheme that raised more than $11 million from at least 200 investors.  Chaucer is in jail awaiting a hearing on bond. (more…) ...
  1 week ago

• U.S. Moves to Confiscate a Fortune in Ponzi Case

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The government filed court papers seeking luxurious possessions of a Fort Lauderdale lawyer accused of running a $1 billion Ponzi scheme.
  1 week ago

• Start Date Is Critical in Ponzi Plan

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  Bernard L. Madoff entering federal court in March. Mr. Madoff has said that he operated a Ponzi scheme since the early 1990s.
  1 week ago

• Madoff Trustee and Firm Seek $22.1 Million in Fees

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 902
  The trustee, Irving Picard, is trying to recover assets to repay victims of the Madoff Ponzi scheme.
  1 week ago

• The Madoff Principle

  
  Investor's Watchblog — Authority: 125
  Maxwell Smith of Fair Haven, New Jersey,  operated  a financial scam for more than 15 years.  He operated the scam at the several brokerage firm he worked for over a 35 year career as a stockbroker.  He promised guaranteed returns of between seven and a half and nine percent per year.  He raised more than $10 ...
  1 week ago

• Ponzi scheme hits home in South Florida

  
  Pro Press Release — Authority: 140
  Ponzi schemes have been around for over one hundred years; however, since the Bernie Madoff scandal erupted and thousands of investors were defrauded of billions of dollars, this has become more of a household phrase, affecting many “average” Americans. More recently, the South Florida community was shocked to ...
  1 week ago

• IW’s Crystal Ball Right Again

  
  Investor's Watchblog — Authority: 125
  Investor’s Watchdog knows the future of investment fraud.  It details what’s coming on the  Crystal Ball  page of its website.  One of the broad categories of scam that we can expect to see more often is the “green energy” scam.  No one who remembers five dollar per gallon gasoline can fail to appreciate ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ponzi Schemes Go Green

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of using bogus claims about “green initiatives” to entice more than 300 investors into what was really a $30 million Ponzi scheme. “The only green these promoters seemed interested in was investors’ money,” said Don Hoerl, director of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Page Perrys Market Monitor - November 13, 2009

  
  Investment Fraud Lawyer Blog — Authority: 122
  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

• Madoff Code Monkeys Incarcerated

  
  Infosecurity.US — Authority: 133
  News , of laid charges, and subsequent incarceration, of two developers whom once worked for fraud kingpin Bernard Madoff. More information, including a short snippet of Kim Zetter’s original post at Wired , appears after the jump. From Wired’s ThreatLevel blogger Kim Zetter : “ Madoff’s Coders ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ponzi du Jour: S.E.C. Says It Found Green Scheme

  
  DealBook — Authority: 762
  The Securities and Exchange Commission said Monday that it had uncovered yet another Ponzi scheme, this time with a company that purported to invest in environmentally friendly, or "green," projects.
  2 weeks ago

• Ponzi Schemed Mogul Selling at TWC: Florida cosmetics mogul Doug Von Allmen...

  
  Curbed NY — Authority: 680
  Florida cosmetics mogul Doug Von Allmen was badly burned by yet another mini-Madoff, and so hes put his Time Warner Center duplex pied-a-terre on the market for $18.45 million , Max Abelson reports . But dont cry for the guy, he seems to be doing fine. His lost investment "wont change my lifestyle that much, but it ...
  2 weeks ago

• SEC Charges Madoff’s Computer Programmers

  
  Investor's Watchblog — Authority: 125
  Last week the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (”SEC”)  charged  computer programmers Jerome O’Hara of Malverne, New York, and George Perez of East Brunswick, New Jersey, with helping  Bernie Madoff  conceal his scam.  According to the SEC’s  complaint , O’Hara and Perez accepted hush money to ...
  2 weeks ago

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