In the world of finance, a Ponzi scheme is a house of cards — a system in which early investors are paid with money from new participants, not real profits. Eventually, the influx slows, the illusion ...
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The financial records of First Liberty Building & Loan are in disarray, complicating efforts to recover funds from a $140 million Ponzi scheme affecting over 300 investors. More than $1.2 million in ...
Buffett’s right-hand man, the late Charlie Munger, strongly defended the program. He said that he felt more strongly than Buffett that the Republicans who were challenging Social Security were “out of ...
A Randolph couple pleaded guilty in federal court to running a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded dozens of victims, some of whom had invested their life savings in the scam, according ...
Retired NFL Pro Bowler and Carolina Panthers legend Mike Rucker sued his longtime financial adviser in North Carolina Business Court after losing nearly $3 million in a commercial real estate Ponzi ...
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He seemed to have it all.” At the height of Ireland's economic boom, property investor Breifne O'Brien was the definition of upper middle class: expensive ski trips, an Aston Martin in the driveway ...
The charges were in connection with a $20 million Ponzi scheme. He was sentenced to 235 months’ (19 years and seven months) imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. According to ...
An Everett man is now under federal indictment for an alleged Ponzi scheme that was described by an investor as “the largest franchise fraud case in the history of the United States,” according to a ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WITN/Gray News) - A former car dealer was sentenced to five years in prison for running a Ponzi scheme to keep his business open. Willard Sutton was sentenced in federal court in ...