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Jurors have begun Day Four of deliberations in the fraud trial of Minnesota businessman Tom Petters. The seven-woman, five-man jury reached the 17-hour mark on Monday evening after getting the case last week. They're considering a 20-count indictment,...
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A disbarred Florida lawyer surrendered to the FBI on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to charges he bilked investors out of $1.2 billion in a Ponzi scheme that funded his luxury lifestyle and political largess. Scott Rothstein, who fled to Morocco in late...
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Another company with ties to embattled Indianapolis businessman Timothy S...It has since sold off its operations and is now a holding company run by Durham and several business associates, including Robert Kaiser and David Tornek. Fair Finance Co., co-owned...
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Scott Rothstein, 47, is expected to appear before a federal magistrate in Fort Lauderdale later. The alleged Ponzi scheme, whereby early investors were paid off with the money of new clients, is similar to that run by Bernard Madoff. Earlier this year,...
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A federal jury adjourned deliberations on Monday without reaching a verdict over whether Minnesota businessman Tom Petters orchestrated a $3.65 billion fraud that prosecutors have labeled a Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors have accused the founder of Petters...
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A.M. — A businessman charged with scheming to defraud was running a Ponzi scheme that duped Southwest Florida real estate investors says a Citrus County sheriff�s detective. But Jerry Clawson, 58, who has an auto dealership in Citrus but also operates...
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He stood at a chalkboard writing mathematical equations that he said explained how this formula for investing would make them all rich. Then came the big promise -- if everyone followed the formula, they could make $36,000 a month. Some cheered, others...
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Most of those responsible for the devastation have waddled down the basement stairs hoping to counteract massive doses of sleep-inducing L-tryptophan by listening to a lively impromptu concert by a trio of grade-schoolers who had thoughtfully brought...
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Federal prosecutors say authorities have broken up a Ponzi scheme in Hamilton that promised big payoffs on real estate but instead stole the life savings of more than 80 people, many of them elderly. A plea deal signed this week accuses salesmen for...
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The streets of Hamilton were awash with cheers and frantic flag waving as the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh continued their tour of the island today. Hundreds lined the royal route to catch a glimpse of the couple as the arrived in the capital by horse-drawn...
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