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Federal grand jury indicts Louisiana businessman in alleged $19.5 million Ponzi scheme
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 2 days ago
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A Louisiana businessman was charged Friday with engaging in a Ponzi scheme to defraud about 160 investors — mostly elderly people — out of roughly $19.5 million and using some of the money to pay for cars, cruises, sports tickets and a house...Pizzolato,...
Tags: Matthew B. Pizzolato, ponzi scheme, grand jury, Ponzi, Ponchatoula, Jim Letten, New Orleans, Charles Ponzi, Securities fraud, Confidence trick, Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana, Fraud, Deception, Confidence tricksters, Law Crime
Petters says he planned to tell gov't about fraud
Saint Paul :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Petters Co, AM Petters, Deanna Coleman, Joe Dixon, Petters Group Worldwide, Tom Petters, Minnesota, PCI, Ponzi, ponzi scheme, Canada, Saint Paul, Fraud, Charles Ponzi, Sun Country Airlines, Mail fraud, Crimes, Law Crime
Victim in `juice scam' never met alleged villain Scott Rothstein
Casablanca :: Morocco | 3 days ago
Credibility Coconut Grove businessman Todd Snyder was lured into it just days before the Fort Lauderdale lawyer's Ponzi scheme imploded in late October. Snyder wired a bank more than $2 million to buy a slice of Rothstein's purported $500 million settlement with...
Tags: Scott Rothstein, Todd Snyder, Doug Faulkner, Dole Food Co, Ponzi, ponzi scheme, Miami Herald, Morocco, Casablanca, Charles Ponzi, William Faulkner
La. man nabbed in Ponzi scam
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility State fraud investigators and sheriff’s deputies arrested a leading Hammond businessman Thursday accused of operating a Ponzi scheme that cost at least 200 investors an estimated $11 million and funded his lavish lifestyle. Instead of investing the money...
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FBI probes potential billion dollar Ponzi scheme
Miami :: FL :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The FBI is investigating a prominent Florida lawyer suspected of organizing a Ponzi scheme that may have defrauded investors of more than a billion dollars, the agency said. Scott Rothstein, a 47-year-old lawyer from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was the...
Tags: FBI, Scott Rothstein, billion dollar, Ponzi, ponzi scheme, Miami, Bernard Madoff, Charles Ponzi, Fraud, Madoff investment scandal, Fairfield Greenwich Group, Business Finance, Confidence tricksters, economics, Law Crime
Friendship forged on the football field shattered by alleged Ponzi scheme
Calgary :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility If there are two things you need to understand about CFL receiving great Don Narcisse, it’s this: First off, he works tirelessly at whatever he does. Secondly, he’s notoriously frugal. And that’s what caught friends and former teammates off-guard when...
Tags: Don Narcisse, Ponzi, Texas Southern University, CFL, Canada, Calgary, Canadian Football League, Ponzi scheme, Dave Ridgway, Charles Ponzi, allnews
Fyi: Business
New York City :: NY :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility The state's rig count is 59 percent below the year-ago level of 189. Nationwide, the net number of active drilling units rose by 23 this week to 1,101, said Houston-based Baker Hughes...Of the rigs running this week, 728 were exploring for natural gas...
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UPDATE: Couple sentenced in Ponzi scheme
Macon :: GA :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Gary Sheldon Hutcheson, 57, was ordered to serve 5 years in prison while Saundra McKinney Pyles, 53, must serve seven months in prison followed by seven months of home confinement. Together the couple must pay more than $1.6 million to about four dozen...
Tags: Gary Sheldon Hutcheson, Don Hutcheson, Gary Hutcheson, Ponzi, ponzi scheme, Saundra Pyles, Bryant Pyles, Saundra McKinney Pyles, Macon, Charles Ponzi, Maurice Hutcheson, Law Crime
Businessman pleads guilty in $50M Ponzi scheme
Lubbock :: TX :: USA | 10 days ago
Credibility Texas — A Lubbock businessman pleaded guilty Thursday to two charges related to his bilking $50 million from investors in a Ponzi scheme. Benny Lee Judah pleaded guilty in federal court in Lubbock to one count each of money laundering and sale and delivery...
Tags: Lubbock, pleads guilty, Ponzi, ponzi scheme, lubbock businessman, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Fraud, Joseph S. Forte, Steven Hoffenberg, Confidence tricksters, Charles Ponzi, economics, Law Crime, Business Finance, Blockbuster Inc., Centex, Coinstar, Lubbock Texas, Balfour Beatty, Redbox
Denver man accused in securities crimes.
Denver :: CO :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility 00 AM MST Colorado Securities Commissioner Fred J. Joseph announced Tuesday that he has filed a complaint in Denver District Court and obtained a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against Denver resident Jerrald Green and his assortment of...
Tags: denver man, ponzi scheme, Jerrald Green, Ponzi, Denver District Court, man accused
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