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Scott Rothstein: Scope of scandal emerges
Fort Lauderdale :: FL :: USA | about 22 hours ago
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A Miami man who owns an ink cartridge business put up $2 million, and a Fort Lauderdale couple in their 80s, $1 million. A Palm Beach County man fears his life savings — $135,000 in a Rothstein law firm escrow account, money to close on a condo — is...
Tags: Scott Rothstein, Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler, Mr. Rothstein, George G. Levin, George Levin, Mr. Levin, Barry Bekkedam, Banyon, Fort Lauderdale, Doug Von Allmen, Charles Ponzi, UBS AG, Confidence tricksters, Ponzi scheme, Hedge fund, Business Finance
Stanford investors to Antigua: Remove liquidator
Road Town :: British Virgin Islands | 1 day ago
Credibility S, Antigua— A group of investors is urging an Antiguan court to remove a British accounting firm appointed to collect assets of a Caribbean offshore bank at the center of an alleged Ponzi scheme by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford. Martin Kenney, a...
Tags: Vantis Business Recovery Services, Stanford International Bank Ltd., Antiguan, R. Allen Stanford, ponzi scheme, Martin Kenney, Montreal, British Virgin Islands, Road Town, Charles Ponzi, Fraud, Business Finance, Allen Stanford, Stanford Financial Group, Vantis
Rothstein's ex-partner Rosenfeldt a 'leader of year' before RRA collapse
Fort Lauderdale :: FL :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Thirteen days later, life as he knew it was blown to smithereens by revelations about his partner and friend Scott Rothstein. Rothstein agreed to be voluntarily disbarred this week, amidst accusations he lied to clients, raided law firm trust funds, forged...
Tags: Scott Rothstein, Fort Lauderdale, Confidence tricksters, Charles Ponzi, Ponzi scheme, Law Crime
Mantria wants to sell Hawai'i firm
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Mantria Corp., the Pennsylvania company that's been accused of a $30 million Ponzi scheme by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, said it is looking to sell a Hawai'i company it took over recently. Mantria got a court order several weeks ago...
Tags: Carbon Diversion Inc., Staff Mantria Corp., Michael Lurvey, Honolulu, Biochar, Charles Ponzi, Charcoal, Ponzi scheme, Business Finance, Environment
Federal grand jury indicts Louisiana businessman in alleged $19.5 million Ponzi scheme
New Orleans :: LA :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility 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
SEC accuses 4 people in alleged Ponzi scheme
Denver :: CO :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors nationwide in purported eco-friendly investments. The Securities and Exchange Commission alleges Wayde McKelvy and Donna...
Tags: Mantria Corp, Denver, Ponzi scheme, Confidence tricksters, Wayde, Charles Ponzi, Business Finance
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
TD, Lawyer Sued in Ponzi Case
Miami :: FL :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility TD Bank, a unit of Canadian banking giant TD Bank Financial Group, has been hit with a lawsuit arising out of an alleged Ponzi scheme by onetime Florida attorney Scott Rothstein. Mr. Rothstein, who oversaw a prominent, 70-lawyer firm in Fort Lauderdale,...
Tags: TD Bank Financial Group, td banking, South Florida, florida attorney, Miami, Confidence tricksters, Charles Ponzi, Ponzi scheme, Law Crime, Business Finance, UBS AG, Investment banks, Primary dealers, Tort law, economics, Crimes, Deception, Fraud
Victim in `juice scam' never met alleged villain Scott Rothstein
Casablanca :: Morocco | 2 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
SEC told to improve ways it chooses probe targets
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 days ago
Credibility The Securities and Exchange Commission must tighten its process for deciding which investment advisers to inspect if it is to avoid colossal breakdowns like the one that allowed Bernard Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud to go undetected for 16 years,...
Tags: SEC, Bernard Madoff, David Kotz, inspector general, investment business, investment advisers, Washington, NASDAQ, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Madoff, Ponzi scheme, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business Finance, economics, Confidence tricksters
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