Before Jonathan Gould lost everything in Pride of Austin’s alleged Ponzi scheme, he thought he’d built a $1 million nest egg. Instead his money disappeared, along with $60 million from other ...
IRS Forensic Investigations, led by investigator Chad Thomas, has been unravelling what was a classic Ponzi scheme orchestrated by a romantic couple, Alessandro Valecic and Elmarie Dukas.
That is why this country is a fertile ground for swindlers and Ponzi scheme promoters. The older among us will remember the “Kubus” scheme where punters bought milk cultures, cultivated them ...
PROVIDENCE – A Rhode Island mortgage broker has admitted to misappropriating $1.5 million in investors’ money in an elaborate Ponzi scheme and then spending the money for personal expenses and ...
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Drive is at the center of a $300 million-plus nationwide Ponzi scheme, and in mid-August, the SEC obtained a preliminary injunction ...
“There’s no way Vlad would be running a Ponzi scheme, right?” he asked. The two dismissed it from their minds. “Why would he ...
A federal judge has declared that iCap Equity, accused of bilking hundreds of real estate investors, operated as a Ponzi scheme. Chief Judge Whitman Holt ruled in a Yakima bankruptcy court that ...
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Over the past few years, South Africa has experienced the rise and fall of three large Ponzi schemes — MTI, BHI Trust, and the Diamond Scheme — that saw investors lose millions. Ponzi schemes ...
A federal judge ruled Thursday that a Bellevue-based real estate investment firm accused of defrauding hundreds of investors operated as a Ponzi scheme, using investors’ money to repay other ...
The Federal Reserve issued an enforcement action against a Washington state bank that was recently used to facilitate an alleged Ponzi scheme. In an enforcement action released this week, the Fed said ...
(Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon) Political ads claiming that Republican U.S. House candidate Nick Begich labeled Social Security a “Ponzi scheme” use a quote taken out of context ...