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Paul, Minn., broke for the Thanksgiving Day holiday Tuesday without reaching a verdict in the $3.6 billion Tom Petters Ponzi scheme trial. The 52-year-old chairman of Petters Group Worldwide, whose holdings included Sun Country Airlines and Polaroid Corp.,...
Tags: Tom Petters Ponzi, Canada, Saint Paul, Petters Group Worldwide, Ponzi scheme, Tom Petters, Law Crime, Charles Ponzi, Confidence tricksters, Sun Country Airlines, Business Finance, economics, Bernard Madoff, Jury
Jurors resume deliberations in Petters trial Jerry Holt, Star Tribune Tom Petters If they don't reach a verdict Tuesday, they will take the rest of the week off for the Thanksgiving holiday and resume deliberations next Monday. By DAVID PHELPS , Star...
Tags: resume deliberations, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Entertainment Culture, Tom Petters, Jury, Thanksgiving, Business Finance
Minn. — A federal prosecutor has asked a jury to hold Minnesota businessman Tom Petters responsible for a massive fraud at his company. In closing arguments Monday, prosecutor Jon Marti said Petters lied on the stand last week when he blamed the fraud...
Tags: Tom Petters, Minnesota, Ponzi, minnesota businessman, closing arguments, Canada, Saint Paul, Charles Ponzi, Jury, Fraud, Ponzi scheme, Law Crime, Legal procedure, Business Finance, Petters Group Worldwide, Sun Country Airlines, Confidence tricksters, economics, Fingerhut, Prosecutor
Paul for the closing arguments in the Tom Petters fraud trial this morning was like getting into a posh New York City nightclub, with onlookers lining up at 6:30 a.m. for the 9 a.m. arguments...District Judge Richard Kyle's courtroom on the seventh floor...
Tags: Minneapolis, Ponzi scheme, Tom Petters, Legal procedure, Jury, Law Crime
Any business owner looking to satisfy customers knows it is better to underpromise and overdeliver than the other way around. Big publicly held companies are reemphasizing that philosophy with their earnings guidance. After all, one way to paint a bad...
Tags: earnings surprises, reported negative, positive earnings, beating expectations, negative earnings, negative surprises, Minneapolis, Financial ratios, Stock market, Corporate finance, P/E ratio, Earnings quality, Late-2000s recession, Recessions, Tom Petters, Business Finance
Brigham’s meltdown The Brigham’s restaurant chain, owned by Luke Cooper of Baltimore’s Deal Metrics, did not file for bankruptcy as expected. A court filing of a Chapter 7 liquidation plan for 13 corporate-operated eateries could occur as soon as Monday,...
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Gogebic County Michigan, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Charles Ponzi, Ironwood Michigan, Initial public offering, Business Finance, Centerplate, Spartanburg South Carolina, Tom Petters
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
Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday. Scientists recently collected 32 DNA samples...
Tags: asian carp, Asian, Lake Michigan, electronic barrier, Chicago Sanitary, Traverse City, Chicago River, Silver carp, Bighead carp, Carp, Asian carps, Great Lakes, Environment, Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, Sport fish, Calumet River, Tom Petters, Lock, Carp fishing
Minnesota businessman Tom Petters put the blame squarely on several of his trusted friends Wednesday for the $3.65 billion fraud carried out at Petters Co...Testifying for the second day in his fraud trial, Petters said two PCI vice presidents, Deanna...
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About 641,000 Bobby Chupete pacifiers, manufactured in China and imported by Grand World Inc. of Maspeth, N.Y., because the mouth guard is too small, creating a choking risk...They were sold nationwide between November 2004 and July 2009.
Tags: Canada, Toronto, Made in China, Lowe's, Barbecue grill, Pacifier, Grill, Tom Petters, Petters Group Worldwide, Law Crime, Entertainment Culture