A BRIEF STUDY IN CASH-GIFTING CONTRASTS: The Attorney General, The BBB — And Hank Needham (Before The Club Asteria Brainstorm And CONSOB Probe)
In this post, we included a March 2008 Dailymotion video of Hank Needham — later to emerge as one of Club Asteria’s purported owners — hawking a cash gifting scheme in which five $100 bills (U.S.) spilled out of an envelope tucked inside an envelope delivered by overnight courier DHL. (Please note that March 2008 […]
BULLETIN: 7 Michigan Women Charged With Felonies In Cash-Gifting Scheme; State Police Issue Alert On Pyramid Schemes Targeting Women; Ask Public To Report Gifting Offers
So, you want to involve your family, friends and business associates in a cash-gifting scheme and tell them it it perfectly legal? Seven women have been charged with felonies in Michigan and the Michigan State Police (MSP) are warning that schemes targeting women are sweeping across the state. MSP is asking members of the public […]
Fugitives Charged In Michigan Ponzi Scheme Captured By U.S. Marshals, Police In Tennessee; Rita Gosselin And Husband Had Been On The Lam Since April
In December 2009, Rita Gosselin was indicted for racketeering in Michigan. Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said she was at the helm of a real-estate Ponzi scheme involving promissory notes. In April 2010, Gosselin, 58, was alleged to have cut a monitoring device and fled the the state with her husband, Richard Gosselin, 62. The […]
3 Michigan Men Charged With Racketeering For Their Local Roles In Alleged $350 Million National Ponzi Scheme
Three Michigan men were arrested for racketeering today for their local roles in an alleged national Ponzi scheme that targeted senior citizens. Robert Valeri Sr., 59, of South Lyon, Robert Antonio Valeri Jr., 32, of Canton, and Jeffrey Ron Mitchell, 39, of Walled Lake, were accused of cheating 125 Michigan seniors out of their life […]
Michigan Woman Charged With Racketeering In Alleged Real-Estate Ponzi Scheme; Rita Gosselin Arrested, Jailed Early This Morning In Greater Detroit
Just hours after news broke of a racketeering indictment by Colorado prosecutors against a Denver-area man in an alleged Ponzi scheme, Michigan prosecutors announced the racketeering indictment of a Greater Detroit woman in what was described as a real-estate Ponzi scheme. In the past two days, prosecutors from different agencies in different regions of the […]
NEWS AND NOTES: Arrests Made In Ponzi And Affinity Fraud Scheme That Targeted 21 Michigan Churches; Pennsylvania Man Accused Of Targeting Credit Unions In Ponzi Scheme
Two Maryland men were charged and arrested, amid allegations they fleeced 21 Michigan churches out of $660,000 in a Ponzi and affinity fraud scheme in which pastors were duped into giving a leasing company access to church bank accounts. Authorities said the men perhaps targeted more than 160 churches in 13 states and the District […]