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FEDS: Florida Attorney Conspired With Ponzi Schemer Scott Rothstein To Run Electioneering, Check-Kiting And Tax Scams And Prop Up Cash-Gushing Law Firm
Fort Lauderdale lawyer Steven N. Lippman conspired with now-disbarred attorney, convicted racketeer and Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein to prop up the Rothstein, Rosenfeldt and Adler (RRA) law firm through electioneering, check-kiting and tax scams, federal prosecutors charged yesterday. A 70-attorney firm that employed about 150 staff members, RRA collapsed in the wake of Rothstein’s epic…
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REPORT: Ponzi Pitchman Found Dead In Florida Of Apparent Suicide
Daniel Joseph Sebastian, accused last year by the SEC of being a pitchman for the James D. Risher Ponzi scheme, has been found dead in Florida of an apparent suicide, The Ledger.com is reporting. Risher, a 61-year-old recidivist felon last living in Sanibel, Fla., pleaded guilty to Ponzi-related offenses last year and was sentenced to…
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EDITORIAL: Swearing By The ‘Droid’ On Easter Sunday
Ain’t no one who does it quite like The Salty Droid, the fake-robot Blogger who sometimes curses like a [bleeping] longshoreman as he goes about the business of sucking the wind out of the sails of some nihilistic Internet marketing ships and their fantastically reckless captains. Like Capt. Frank [“Bleeping”] Kern of “Syndicate” infamy, for…
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Accused Scammer And Convicted Felon Eric Aronson, 2 Others Indicted In Alleged Permapave Ponzi Scheme; ‘House Of Cards,’ Top Federal Prosecutor Says
Eric Aronson, the accused New York scammer and convicted felon originally arrested in October 2011 in an alleged Ponzi scheme, now has been formally indicted, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York said. Charged along with Aronson with conspiracy, securities fraud and money laundering were Vincent Buonauro and Fredric Aaron. Aaron is an…
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BULLETIN: Now, A Web-Based ‘Auto Loan Modification’ Scam, FTC Alleges; California Firms Accused Of Targeting Car Borrowers Facing Repossession And Putting Them Deeper In The Hole
BULLETIN: The Federal Trade Commission has gone to federal court in the Eastern District of California, alleging that several individuals and companies were running separate, web-based scams in which borrowers were told they could avoid vehicle repossessions by paying upfront fees to the accused scammers and not making payments on their car loans. The scams…
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** [UNCONFIRMED] ** ‘JustBeenPaid’ Experiencing DDoS Attack ** [UNCONFIRMED] **
UPDATED 2:56 P.M. EDT (APRIL 3, U.S.A.): After an outage that lasted more than 24 hours, the JustBeenPaid website is back online — although there are reports it is not accessible in all parts of the world. Our earlier story is below . . . ** [UNCONFIRMED] ** Some members of the JSS Tripler/JustBeenPaid “program”…
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‘SOVEREIGN’ UPDATES: (1) Tennessee Man Indicted In Alleged ‘Quit Claim’ Deeds Scam; (2) Virginia Man Facing Trial On Gun Charge Allegedly Had Driver’s License From ‘Kingdom Of Heaven’; (3) Texas Man Allegedly Told Cops To Bring ‘Body Bags’
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a links post presented in the form of briefs. Three significant stories about purported “sovereign citizens” — all from different areas of the United States — have been published and/or broadcast in recent days. The venues include Tennessee, Virginia and Texas. 1.) WMC TV is reporting that Devitoe Farmer, 44, of…
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Federal Agents Arrest 77-Year-Old Pennsylvania Attorney Amid Swirl Of Ponzi Allegations; Anthony Lupas Charged With Mail Fraud; U.S. Secret Service, IRS Spearhead Probe
Another major Ponzi case appears to be brewing — this one in Pennsylvania, where federal agents were seen carting boxes from the Wilkes-Barre office of attorney Anthony Lupas. Lupas, the former solicitor of the Wilkes-Barre School District, is 77. He now joins a number of alleged swindlers over the age of 65 implicated in fraud…
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[DONATION POST]: PP Blog At The Brink Again . . .
Dear Readers, We last made a donation post on Jan. 28, two months ago. We got through February and March OK, but now are on the brink for April. Key bills are coming due, and core necessities are in short supply. We pass the hat reluctantly, but pass it we must. Please help keep the…
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