BitConnect was revealed to be nothing more than a billion -
dollar Ponzi scheme, something many experts, including Litecoin founder Charlie Lee and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, had warned.
Similarly, the UFun billion -
dollar Ponzi scheme managed to lure over 14,000 investors from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and China before Thai and Chinese authorities began a crackdown on the people behind the scam.
Chasing Madoff DVD Review by Kam Williams DVD Chronicles Whistleblower's Effort to Expose Madoff Ponzi Scheme By the time Bernie Madoff was finally arrested in December of 2008, Harry Markopolos had already been trying to expose his investment firm as a billion -
dollar Ponzi scheme for years.
On May 27, 2010, Stein was indicted and arrested for lying about his involvement during the investigation of the multimillion -
dollar Ponzi scheme involving Ken Starr, a financial advisor to various Hollywood celebrities.
A few years before that, another outfit called Muddy Waters Research alleged Canadian firm Sino - Forest Corp. was «a multi-billion
dollar Ponzi scheme.»
From multimillion -
dollar Ponzi schemes to small - time frauds, Konnikova pulls together a selection of fascinating stories to demonstrate what all cons share in common, drawing on scientific, dramatic, and psychological perspectives.
Not exact matches
Ponzi schemes were named for Charles
Ponzi, a man who raised millions of
dollars from investors in a stamp
scheme, but in fact was just paying early investors with money raised from later investors.
The island's own government borrowed billions of dollars to pay its bills, a practice that Puerto Rico's current governor, Ricardo Rosselló, now calls «a big Ponzi scheme.»
The largest
Ponzi scheme ever was run by Bernie Madoff's
scheme who stole $ 20 Billion
dollars from more than 16,000 people including sophisticated investors and brokers.
Five years and several million
dollars later, a New York art collector claims in court that the sculptor Jeff Koons and the Gagosian Gallery are running a «garden - variety» fraud with all the hallmarks of a
Ponzi scheme.
Stay tuned for more wasted billions
dollars on a super corrupt
PONZI scheme that won't change the temp, co2 levels or climate by a jot.
Keeping the Madoff assets cost the husband millions of
dollars, however, when Madoff was revealed to be running a massive
Ponzi scheme in late 2008.
Obtained dismissal of a regional bank from a multi-district class action for hundreds of millions of
dollars in an alleged
Ponzi scheme.
She has a record of success, including obtaining a complete dismissal, prior to discovery, in a multi-district class action claiming damages of hundreds of millions of
dollars resulting from an alleged
Ponzi scheme.
For cryptocurrency exchanges like Bithumb, Korbit and Coinone, that process billions of
dollars in trades on a daily basis, regulations are necessary because a rather large portion of investors in the South Korean cryptocurrency market are falling victim to
Ponzi schemes and scams.
Perhaps Mr. Carney doesn't remember that Bernie Madoff who ran the biggest
Ponzi scheme in history, to the tune of 50 Billion
dollars, once sat on the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.