Day: October 29, 2009

UPDATED 8:28 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Minneapolis/St. Paul has Tom Petters, accused of operating a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme by deceiving investors into thinking they were financing his company’s purchase of electronics that later would be sold to Wal-Mart and other huge retailers. And now Chicago has Matthew Scott, whom investigators described as a sort of…