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9 Jan 2009, 9:32 am
 One of Wall Street’s most prominent investment advisers appears to have walked off with $50 billion dollars in what may qualify as the largest Ponzi scheme in world history. [read post]
17 Feb 2009, 11:15 am
In the wake of Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Robert Allen Stanford and three of his companies with orchestrating multi-billion dollar fraudulent investment schemes. [read post]
12 Aug 2009, 10:10 am
.'" The SEC's reputation as the dozing sheriff was battered by its failure to detect and/or take action against the Madoff Ponzi scheme and numerous other fraudulent schemes. [read post]
19 Jan 2009, 9:33 am
Piccoli and Gen-See Corporation,Norman Hsu, Lou Pearlman a/k/a "Big Poppa",Charles Ponzi,William Miller a/k/a "520%",Dana Giacchetto, Raffaello Follieri, Alberto Vilar shows that even the rich and sophisticated are susceptible to dissipation of assets through sordid financial schemes.Then of course you have the corporate accounting scandals such as Worldcom, Enron, Adelphia and Tyco in the early 2000s that wrecked the lives of the common folk who worked for or invested… [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 7:23 am by Anthony Lake
Brook, ICG (headquartered on a Royal Air Force base in Lincolnshire, England, with offices in Europe, Australia and the Caribbean) and others, involved offshore investments in South American mining operations and havens such as the British Virgin Islands and Greneda, in what has been alleged to be Britain's largest Ponzi scheme. [read post]
12 Dec 2008, 6:04 pm
The Am Law Daily is still reeling from reading the complaint against Bernard Madoff, the securities trader (and former NASDAQ chair) accused of orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme ever--one that could result in $50 billion of losses for investors. [read post]
14 Nov 2009, 10:32 am by Keith L. Miller
The complaint alleges that WAMU's banking services played an integral role in facilitating the $150 Million Ponzi scheme perpetrated by William Wise and Millennium Bank. [read post]
7 Jun 2015, 5:46 am by Adam Weinstein
The SEC alleged the defendants made ponzi scheme payments to investors in other offerings and paid themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars in undisclosed fees. [read post]
19 Oct 2012, 5:33 am by Jordan D. Maglich
”  In a bizarre Ponzi scheme purportedly based in Chicago involving a mysterious one-eyed man and 4,445% returns, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") charged three individuals with masterminding an investment fraud that scammed investors out of at least $6 million. [read post]
25 Jul 2015, 7:07 am by Adam Weinstein
Schneiderman announced the arrest of Monroe and charging him with stealing over $1 million from investors by fraudulently soliciting them to reinvest their retirement monies in what essentially was a Ponzi scheme. [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 4:21 pm by Fred Abrams
Zayed, who is trying to interdict assets dissipated by Ponzi schemer Trevor Cook. [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 12:20 am
  So the feds say it was a Ponzi scheme and busted Cosmo, bringing his company, Agape World, Inc. crashing down.Cosmo operated on Long Island, a hometown version of Bernie Madoff, if you will. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 4:48 pm
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday night that it had missed repeated opportunities to discover what may be the largest financial fraud in history, a Ponzi scheme whose losses could run as high as $50 billion. [read post]
14 Feb 2010, 9:36 am by Alain Leibman
This is the twenty-third in a series of installments on this blog that are discussing issues arising in the aftermath of the long global Ponzi scheme of Bernard L. [read post]
15 Feb 2020, 7:35 am by John Floyd
Former New York City financier Bernie Madoff is serving a 150-year term in the federal prison system following guilty pleas to multiple charges involving a $20 billion Ponzi scheme that bilked a wide range of celebrities, charities, financial funds, friends and average investors. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 12:30 pm
A money manager from Brooklyn, New York, was found guilty of running a $45 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors. [read post]
26 Oct 2009, 2:22 pm by Ross B. Intelisano
Galleon Wiretaps Rattle Hedge Funds as Insider Trading Targeted Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- First came the biggest bear market since the 1930s, then Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme and the threat of increased regulation. [read post]