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Minn. — A Minnesota businessman accused of running a Ponzi scheme and defrauding investors out of billions of dollars said Friday that a 2008 raid by federal agents on his company was unnecessary and caused its collapse. Testifying before his attorneys...
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Petters associate explains how alleged scam worked A key figure in the case of a Minnesota businessman accused of orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme acknowledged Monday that he was a disbarred lawyer with a criminal record who had entered the federal...
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The whistle-blower in the $3.65 billion fraud trial of accused Ponzi schemer Tom Petters testified on Wednesday that she wrote more than $1.2 million in Petters company checks to her boyfriend and brother. Under cross-examination from Petters' defense...
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Deanna Coleman, the executive who blew the whistle on her boss, Wayzata businessman Tom Petters, described this morning how millions of dollars investors' money was funneled from Petters Co...Coleman, who served as vice president of operations at Petters...
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Petters, 51, was arrested Friday on federal charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice in what authorities say was a scheme to defraud investors of more than $100 million. Court documents indicate as much as $3 billion...
Tags: Deanna Coleman, Petters Group Worldwide, Tom Petters, pleads guilty