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Court Gives Receiver Go-Ahead To Start Selling Property Tied To Alleged Trevor Cook/Pat Kiley Ponzi; Large-Screen TVs, Slot Machines To Be Auctioned
UPDATED 4:06 P.M. ET (U.S.A.) A federal judge in the SEC and CFTC Ponzi scheme cases against Trevor Cook and Pat Kiley has paved the way for the receiver to begin selling property linked to the alleged $190 million scheme. Among the first items up for bid will be 12 large-screen televisions, two slot machines…
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Ballroom Dancer Gets 18 Years In Financial Scheme; Wayne ‘Twinkle Toes’ Puff Case In New Jersey Combined Mortgage And Ponzi Fraud
His case signaled that things were desperately out of control in the U.S. mortgage industry, and Wayne Puff was sentenced yesterday to 18 years in federal prison for swindling investors and banks in a massive mortgage and Ponzi scheme that operated between 1998 and 2005. Although Puff had been disciplined by regulators in New Jersey…
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Former Talk-Radio Host Gregg Rennie Pleads Guilty In Ponzi Scheme; Weizhen Tang Arrested At Toronto Airport
A Massachusetts man accused of targeting senior citizens and people of faith — and fleecing millions of dollars from them in a Ponzi scheme — has pleaded guilty. Meanwhile, Canadian-citizen and Ponzi-scheme suspect Weizhen Tang, the self-described “Chinese Warren Buffet,” was arrested last night at Pearson International Airport in Toronto. Tang was taken into custody…
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Records Suggest Cook/Kiley Firms Owned At Least 12 Large-Screen TVs And Beer-Dispensing Equipment
In a case that already has featured assertions that alleged Minnesota Ponzi schemer Trevor Cook purchased a submarine on eBay to access his private island in Canada, the receiver in the case has filed papers that suggest Cook also had an affinity for large-screen TV sets. Receiver R.J. Zayed listed 10 TV sets with 50-inch…
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FBI Arrested Ponzi Suspect Aboard Jet Preparing For Flight To ‘Overseas’ Destination Last Month; Tarakeswar Chaudhary Taken Off Emirates Airlines Plane
Federal agents and airport police have arrested a man suspected of operating a Ponzi scheme and fleecing investors in a fraudulent Google stock offering, the FBI said. Tarakeswar “Tarak†Chaudhary, 49, of Tustin, Calif., was arrested last month at San Francisco International Airport after he boarded an Emirates Airlines flight bound for an “overseas” destination,…
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UPDATE: California Woman Arrested Last Week In Ponzi Case Charged Separately With Stealing From 90-Year-Old Widow And Using Money For Liposuction
A woman jailed in California on Ponzi scheme charges has been charged in a separate case with stealing from a 90-year-old widow and using some of the money to have a liposuction procedure performed in Mexico. Redondo Beach police said they were investigating Mariana Montes for a separate crime when they discovered she was running…
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California Man Who Tried To Flee Country While His Ponzi Was Disintegrating Sentenced To Prison; John Anthony Miller Was Targeted In FBI/State Department Sting
A California man who tried to adopt the identity of a deceased classmate from his school days to flee the United States while his Ponzi scheme was unraveling has been sentenced to 159 months in federal prison. The FBI and the State Department already were aware that John Anthony Miller’s scheme was falling apart when…
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Hedge-Fund Manager With ‘Great Tan’ And Porsche ‘Getaway Car’ Sentenced To Decade In Prison For Ponzi Scheme; Judge Scolds Bradley L. Ruderman At Sentencing
After Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was exposed in December 2008, Beverly Hills hedge-fund manager Bradley L. Ruderman wrote a letter to clients assuring them them their money was safe and deploring Madoff’s “chicanery,” federal prosecutors in the Central District of California said. “[S]uch disgraceful practices will never happen under my watch,†Ruderman declared in the…