Ponzi Scheme

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The Market Financial  May 26  Comment 
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Reuters  May 25  Comment 
Regulators have charged a New York fund manager who was running an $11-million Ponzi scheme, federal court filings showed.
Bankstocks.com  May 24  Comment 
A North Carolina man convicted of running the $40 million Black Diamond Ponzi scheme was sentenced
Mondo Visione  May 22  Comment 
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two individuals who provided the biggest influx of investor funds into one of the largest-ever Ponzi schemes in South Florida. The SEC alleges that George Levin and Frank Preve, who live in...
Mondo Visione  May 17  Comment 
Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman today announced the filing of a civil lawsuit against the recently arrested Robert H. "Bob" Van Zandt, who is currently in custody after being indicted May 14 by a Bronx County Grand Jury on multiple charges...
Forbes  May 17  Comment 
Long before GM pulled its $10M in advertising from Facebook, I lost my faith in the platform. As an online media buyer for American Apparel, I had cut the majority of my spend each month for the preceding 12 months. From the time that Facebook...
Mondo Visione  May 16  Comment 
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) obtained two federal court consent orders of permanent injunction, one order requiring defendant Ronald E. Satterfield, of Charleston, S.C., to pay $957,146 of restitution and a $2,871,438 civil...
Clusterstock  May 15  Comment 
Let’s say someone offered you the opportunity to invest in a hedge fund managed by George Soros. Would you say no? Wait. Let’s start over. Let’s say you didn’t know Soros the way Glenn Beck does and you only knew him as the...
Clusterstock  May 14  Comment 
Yes, they were. And, boy, were they confident about it. And, boy, did they think anyone who said otherwise was a moron. But wait, what's this? Groupon just earned a profit? Groupon had $40 million of operating income? Groupon had $70...
Forbes  May 14  Comment 
A woman in New Jersey allegedly scammed investors by telling them that George Soros (yes, that Soros) would be managing their assets.




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A ponzi scheme is a fraudulent operation that promises to pay investors unusual returns on their investment. The scheme does not earn money through legitimate business, rather it relies on investment from new investors to pay back older investors.

It is named after Charles Ponzi who became famous for applying schemes of this type during early 20th century.

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