Sentences with phrase «including ponzi schemes»

The commercial litigators of Colson Hicks Eidson have decades of experience protecting the rights of both individuals and businesses affected by investment fraud, including Ponzi schemes.

Another problem is fraud: Israeli regulators warn that digital currencies are «fertile ground» for fraudulent activities, including Ponzi schemes.

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Bitconnect had recently been accused of running a Ponzi scheme — the financial fraud most famously perpetrated by Bernie Madoff — by several influential investors, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and billionaire cryptocurrency investor Mike Novogratz.

«Beginning in November 2014 and continuing until his arrest in March 2016, CASPERSEN engaged in a Ponzi - like scheme to defraud investors, including his close friends, family members, and college classmates, by falsely claiming that their funds would be used to make secured loans to private equity firms and would thereby earn an annual rate of return of 15 to 20 percent.

Rather, CASPERSEN operated a Ponzi - like scheme in which he misappropriated investor funds from the Fake Fund Accounts and converted them to his own use and use by others, including by using investor funds to meet CASPERSEN's periodic interest payment commitments to earlier investors.

Use or post, without authorization, any content protected by law (e.g. copyright, trademark, patent, utility patent, design patent or other intellectual property (IP) laws), or advertise, promote, offer or distribute any goods or services protected by law; v. Use, post or promote any commercial practices considered unfair competition, including progressive customer acquisition practices (such as chain distribution systems, Ponzi schemes, illegal multi-level selling or pyramid sales).

Investment Scams - Tips to help avoid becoming the victim of an investment scam, including pyramid schemes, Ponzi schemes, stock promotions and e-mail offers.

These include high - profile cases like Earl Jones, who operated a Ponzi scheme in the Montreal area between 1982 and 2009, bilking his victims out of more than $ 50 million.

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.

In phase 2, 2030 to 2050, after multiple climate Pearl Harbors and the inevitable collapse of the Ponzi scheme we call the global economy, the world gets truly desperate, and actions that are not plausible today — including widespread conservation — become commonplace (see here for a description of what that collapse might look like).

She has experience in handling investigations and prosecutions brought under a wide variety of federal criminal statutes, including banking fraud, health care fraud, bitcoin schemes, computer crimes, securities fraud, mail and wire fraud schemes, Ponzi schemes, insider trading, government contracting fraud, commercial bribery, Anti-Money-Laundering violations, and conspiracy offenses.

Today's legal news was dominated by Bernie Madoff's entry of a guilty plea to eleven charges — including securities fraud, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering and making a false filing to the SEC — all tied to his alleged $ 50 billion Ponzi scheme.

She has served as lead trial counsel in bankruptcy and commercial litigation, including alternative dispute resolution, and has considerable experience in handling fraud and Ponzi scheme litigation and bankruptcy appeals, which have resulted in published Ninth Circuit opinions.

In court, his practice covers not only the general range of commercial disputes embraced in his arbitration practice but in addition he has appeared as Counsel in a number of fraud actions involving recovery of stolen property, Ponzi schemes, resolution of disputes between shareholders / joint venturers, breach of fiduciary duty, tortious conspiracy, professional negligence, structured financial products including Islamic finance.

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.

We have overseen several of the largest Ponzi scheme or EB - 5 receiverships in the United States, including Worldwide Entertainment, the Rothstein Ponzi scheme, and the Jay Peak EB - 5 receivership.

The crypto community is buzzing with both Ponzi and Pyramid schemes, including the famous exchange, Bitconnect.

A hacker attack on SendGrid, an email service used by many companies including Coinbase, resulted in mass spam emails advertising Ponzi schemes being sent to users of Coinbase and Local Bitcoins.

Do note that there are several «investment» plans out there that use P2P lending as a cover for their ponzi schemes, including

Do note that there are several «investment» plans out there that use P2P lending as a cover for their ponzi schemes, including the popular cryptocurrency, Bitconnect.

Crypto pioneers, including Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin and Litecoin founder Charlie lee, have spoken up against the bullish Bitcoin investment platform, calling it a Ponzi scheme.

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.

14 individuals of MiningMax, a cloud mining Ponzi scheme, were arrested by South Korean police with several charges, including economic crime and fraud.

A number of prominent crypto experts have also labelled Bitconnect as a Ponzi scheme, including Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Litecoin's Charlie Lee who tweeted:

These programs include High - Yield Investment Programs (HYIPs), Ponzi schemes, and well - masked pyramid schemes.

Potential hazards for everyday investors include network forks, faulty projects, scam ICOs or Ponzi schemes, and spoofed or hacked versions of legitimate projects.

The company and its owner, Dillon Michael Dean, are charged «with engaging in a fraudulent scheme to solicit Bitcoin from members of the public, misrepresenting that customers» funds would be pooled and invested in products including binary options, making Ponzi - style payments to commodity pool participants from other participants» funds, misappropriating pool participants» funds, and failing to register with the CFTC.»