Tag: California Ponzi schemes
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PROSECUTORS: California Man Hatched Ponzi Scheme And ‘Trust’ Scams — And Ripped Off His Elderly Mother’s Social Security Benefits After She Went Missing
A California man has pleaded guilty to hatching a real-estate Ponzi scheme, transferring a property acquired in the scheme to two “trust” accounts and cherry-picking his 82-year-old mother’s Social Security benefits after she went missing in January 2009. William Warren Baker, 59, of Laguna Nigel, now faces up to 10 years in state prison, prosecutors…
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BULLETIN: Peter Jerald Frommer, California Ponzi Schemer, Sentenced To 108 Months In Prison; Victims Tell Tales Of Devastation
BULLETIN: Peter Jerald Frommer has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison for a Ponzi scheme that fleeced investors of more than $8 million. The scheme itself gathered $13 million, and Frommer, 35, advertised “guaranteed” returns of up to 15 percent in a period of only six weeks. The scheme was known as “Cap…