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SUNDAY NEWS AND NOTES: South Carolina Ponzi Victims Included Widows, Alzheimer’s Patients, Seniors And Amputee; ‘Shocks The Conscience,’ FINRA Says

SUNDAY NEWS AND NOTES: South Carolina Ponzi Victims Included Widows, Alzheimer's Patients, Seniors And Amputee; 'Shocks The Conscience,' FINRA Says

EDITOR’S NOTE: These briefs are based on information from recent Ponzi or fraud schemes. As noted yesterday and previously, the United States has formed a Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force. Cases such as the ones below are part of the reason why. SOUTH CAROLINA AND TENNESSEE: Among the more than 30 victims in the Oren […]

SPECIAL REPORT: Convicted ‘3 Hebrew Boys’ Ponzi Figure Declares He Is ‘Sovereign’; Joseph Brunson Says Prosecutors Have No Authority Over Him

SPECIAL REPORT: Convicted '3 Hebrew Boys' Ponzi Figure Declares He Is 'Sovereign'; Joseph Brunson Says Prosecutors Have No Authority Over Him

Defining himself as “One,” a South Carolina man convicted Friday of operating an $82 million Ponzi scheme with two colleagues has filed a series of pleadings declaring himself “sovereign” and accusing a federal prosecutor of committing treason against the United States. The convicted schemer, Joseph B. Brunson of Hopkins, appears to trying to bolster his […]

‘3 Hebrew Boys’ Guilty In $82 Million Ponzi/Affinity Fraud Scheme; Company Operated In Fashion Similar To AdViewGlobal Autosurf, Imploring Members To Maintain Secrecy

'3 Hebrew Boys' Guilty In $82 Million Ponzi/Affinity Fraud Scheme; Company Operated In Fashion Similar To AdViewGlobal Autosurf, Imploring Members To Maintain Secrecy

In yet another case that may cause widespread unease in the autosurf world, three men accused of defrauding participants in a bogus debt-relief “ministry” have been found guilty of 174 counts of mail fraud, money-laundering and transporting stolen goods. Parts of the case against “3 Hebrew Boys” were remarkably similar to events engulfing the AdSurfDaily […]