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6 Jan 2009, 4:11 pm
In August, before Dreier and Madoff became household names on Wall Street, there was Steven Byers and Joseph Shereshevsky, the owners of WexTrust who allegedly ran a Ponzi scheme targeting Orthodox Jews. [read post]
7 Jan 2011, 9:42 am
U.S. district court judge David Hittner has delayed the January 24 trial of alleged Ponzi schemer R. [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 8:58 am
Anthony Vassallo, one of the suspects in the Folsom ponzi scheme that targeted members of the LDS church apparently himself became the victim of shakedown attempt. [read post]
15 Aug 2008, 12:26 pm
Shereshevsky and his business partner, Steven Byers, stand accused of running a giant Ponzi scheme through their investment firm, WexTrust Capital. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 1:02 pm
A New York lower court has denied a “feeder” hedge fund’s motion to vacate an arbitration award issued by a majority of an American Arbitration Association panel in connection with an investor’s claim against the fund for losses related to the Madoff Ponzi scheme. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 3:27 am
Justice Department Expands Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force to Protect Older Americans from Fraud (DOJ Release)Former Lawyer Sentenced to More than 3 Years in Prison for Conning Clients via Sham Court Documents Containing Forged Judge Signatures (DOJ Release)North County Man Indicted for Multimillion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme (DOJ Release)... [read post]
11th Cir. Holds Failure to File Proof of Claim in Receivership Does Not Extinguish Security Interest
17 Apr 2017, 8:42 am
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently held that a court cannot extinguish a secured creditor’s state-law security interests for failure to file a proof of claim during the administration of an equity receivership over entities involved in a Ponzi scheme. [read post]
23 Dec 2011, 7:43 am
[JURIST] A federal judge ruled Thursday that financier Allen Stanford [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] is mentally competent to stand trial for orchestrating a $7 billion Ponzi scheme affecting investors in both the US and Latin America. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 7:58 pm
Zuckerman’s charity trust potentially has lost more than 10 percent of its worth after it was invested in the alleged Ponzi scheme. [read post]
9 Nov 2011, 11:00 am
David Becker, a former SEC general counsel and current Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton partner, will not face a criminal investigation into whether he violated federal conflict-of-interest laws when he helped set the regulator's policy on payouts to victims of Bernard Madoff's $20 billion Ponzi scheme. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 12:52 pm
[JURIST] Madoff trustee Irving Picard has asked a bankruptcy court to approve the release of between $2.5 and $3.5 billion in recovered assets so that it can be distributed to victims of the Bernard Madoff [JURIST news archive] Ponzi scheme. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 4:55 pm
The term “Ponzi scheme” is used [...] [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 10:17 am
WISENBERG Here is the SDNY's press release regarding the civil forfeiture complaints filed yesterday against property "traceable" to Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme "and paid to or on behalf of" former Bernard L. [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 4:08 pm
Madoff has attracted his fair share of enemies ever since he was arrested in December and accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. [read post]
14 Mar 2010, 9:00 am
Here is a colorful rant against lawyers and law professors over the Wall Street Journal's suggestion that Harry Markopolos, who has written a best-selling book on his decade-long attempt to get the SEC to blow the whistle on Bernie Madoff’s billion-dollar Ponzi scheme, should be appointed chairman of the SEC:... [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 5:55 am
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently held that a bankruptcy trustee seeking to recover fraudulent transfers could recover direct and indirect loan repayments made after the bank had knowledge of the debtor’s Ponzi scheme, but could not recover deposits not applied to pay back the bank’s debt because the bank was […] Hector E. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 11:36 am
As part of the approved settlement, Picower's widow, Barbara, has agreed to forfeit an unprecedented $7.2 billion to Trustee Irving Picard [LA Times report] to be returned to victims of the multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme. [read post]
2 Jun 2008, 5:04 am
Theodore Swain, 60, was sentenced to 24 years in state prison for running a $7 million Ponzi scheme that ripped off 100 investors in Southern California. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 8:52 am
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged 11 individuals for their roles in creating and promoting Forsage, a fraudulent crypto pyramid and Ponzi scheme that raised more than $300 million from millions of retail investors worldwide, including…Read the Full Press ReleaseHave a securities law question? [read post]
24 Apr 2009, 1:53 pm
Madoff's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme is threatening legal action to recover $735 million from investors who unwittingly made money off the swindle. [read post]
