Category: Alleged Ponzi Schemes
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APOLOGISTS INTERRUPTED: Two Court Rulings Show That HYIP Operators, Players Setting Stage For Painful Downfalls, Foreclosures; Woman Loses Home While New Mom Loses Everything
EDITOR’S NOTE: UPDATED 9:22 P.M. EDT (June 7, 2010, U.S.A.) This post is presented in seven parts. With the exception of the lengthier introduction, each part includes six to eight paragraphs. You’ll see a “GO TO PAGE” prompt at the bottom of each section. Simply click on the next page number to continue reading. The…
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OFFICIALS: Ponzi Schemes, Investment Fraud Have Led To Staggering Losses In Utah; Hundreds Of Potential Perpetrators Identified
UPDATED 8:38 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) Recent Ponzi schemes and cases of investment fraud have cost Utah residents an estimated $1.4 billion, the FBI said today. About 370 investigative “subjects” — defined as “potential perpetrators” in current cases — have been identified, and the agency and its law-enforcement partners have embarked on a public awareness and…
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FEDS: Former Police Officer Recruited Active-Duty and Retired Cops, Firefighters Into Ponzi Scheme, Defrauding Them Of Nearly $900,000
In yet-another action brought through the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (FFETF), a former police officer in a Cleveland suburb has been charged with operating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded law-enforcement colleagues and firefighters out of $889,000, federal prosecutors said. Raymond Thomas, 49, who formerly lived in Mentor, Ohio, and served on the Warrensville…
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BULLETIN: Yet Another Florida Ponzi Scheme; SEC Accuses Luis Felipe Perez Of Operating $40 Million Fraud Backed By Fake Diamonds And Bogus ‘Pawn Shops’
EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s one for your Bubba Blue notebook on the various ways to have a Ponzi scheme, as opposed to shrimp. UPDATED 5:50 P.M. EDT (U.S.A.) A Miami man has been charged by the SEC with gathering $40 million in a Ponzi scheme, pocketing $6 million for himself and telling investors they were helping…
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Wayne McLeod Becomes Subject Of FBI Probe; Agency Asks Victims, Witnesses To Come Forward
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story originally was published June 30. The PP Blog later encountered a database problem, which caused the site to go down and resulted in the temporary loss of some data. The data now has been retrieved. The FBI in Jacksonville has opened a probe into Kenneth “Wayne” McLeod, the Florida man who…