Sentences with phrase «with ponzi schemes»

He also compared them with Ponzi schemes, Business Insider explains «Like in Mr Ponzi's schemes, those investors hope for future price gains and believe they will find a greater fool to sell to before the inevitable crash.

The Finance Ministry of India touted what it perceives as a lack of intrinsic value in virtual currencies as reason to equate them with Ponzi schemes.

Ben Stiller is starring as the overworked manager of a luxury tower building, who, along with his staff, plots to get financial revenge on the crooked Wall Street fat cat (Alda) who swindled them out of their life savings with a Ponzi scheme, and now happens to be under house arrest in their building with his ill - gotten gains.

The film follows the real life of Jan Lewan, a Pennsylvania polka sensation who nearly crippled a small town with a Ponzi scheme.

Not exact matches

Earlier this month, the SEC charged two bitcoin mining companies, GAW Miners and ZenMiner, both owned by Joshua Garza, with operating a Ponzi scheme.

A Texas man who operated Bitcoin Savings and Trust was charged on Thursday with bilking his investors, in what prosecutors called the first federal criminal securities fraud case arising from a bitcoin - related Ponzi scheme.

To make his case, Stewart examines four high - profile cases from the past decade — Martha Stewart and the insider trading of ImClone stock; Lewis (Scooter) Libby's role in outing CIA operative Valerie Plame; Barry Bonds's association with Balco; and the collapse of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

The piece to which Gross referred was his monthly commentary for August, in which he said the «cult of equities is dying» and compared their long - term returns to a Ponzi scheme, something with which Wharton's Siegel (left) disagreed.

The government has even equated cryptocurrencies with «Ponzi schemes», which offer unusually high returns to early investors.

The nonprofit Investor Protection Institute (IPI) announced today that it is collaborating with Oklahoma City - based Island Grill Media & Entertainment to develop «The Meeting,» a short film exposing the devastating results for victims of Ponzi schemes.

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.

Like every other attempt throughout history to control the laws of economics and perpetuate Ponzi schemes, the current attempt by Central Banks globally will end with a spectacular collapse.

In a typical Ponzi scheme, the «returns» of early investors are paid with money from later investors who are continually lured in by the purported success of the earlier investors.

The CFTC alleges that the company and its employees created an elaborate hoax, paying customers with funds obtained from other customers — the classic indicators of a Ponzi scheme.

Quixstar was simply the same ponzi scheme with ecommerce packaging.

Ponzi schemes» promised returns are at a level that you can get only with lots of variability and volatility.

The prevailing tack for selling annuities is the same type of shifty pitch on which every Ponzi scheme is premised, top money manager Ken Fisher contends, in an interview with ThinkAdvisor.

One of the problems with Bitcoin is the extent to which it is just a gigantic Ponzi scheme,» the Shadow Home Secretary continued her explanation of the risks posed by Bitcoin.

What if BitConnect is not a Ponzi scheme, but rather a legitimate business with people that care about the success of the company, the investors, and the customers?

Oct 04, 2016 A Ponzi scheme is a kind of investment scam in which investors of longer standing are paid with the buy - in contributions of newer investors.

In a Ponzi scheme, you can earn a percentage of your investment, only to lure you to invest more, and eventually end up with nothing.

In 2014, the Justice Department charged JPMorgan Chase with two felony counts in connection with their role in facilitating the Madoff Ponzi scheme.

Taking advantage of the growing fascination with Bitcoin, numerous ponzi schemes have cropped up in the name of cryptocurrency, targeting thousands of unsuspecting investors.

Last month, the Federal Trade Commission reached a settlement with the nutritional supplements company that, while determining Herbalife was not a pyramid or Ponzi scheme, called for the company to change its operations.

If you're just investing with an online brokerage, in mutual funds, ETFs or index funds, you don't need to worry too much about falling prey to a Ponzi scheme.

A Ponzi scheme is a kind of investment scam in which investors of longer standing are paid with the buy - in contributions of newer investors.

Wall Street destroyed the world economy in 2008 with a derivatives Ponzi scheme.

A brilliant display... Pass the kool aid... Thanks to fans like you wenger has gotten away with his ponzi football scheme and delivered a dozen years of future promise with nothing to show..

«Given the # 50m figure is a work of fiction, this is a political Ponzi scheme with Dominic Cummings acting as Vote Leave's Bernie Madoff.»

COIB's announcement of the fines, and Stringer's scrutiny of Department of Correction spending, comes the same day that a jury is reportedly deadlocked in the corruption trial of former correction union president Norman Seabrook, who is accused of making a deal with a hedge fund to pocket $ 60,000 in exchange for agreeing to steer union money into the fund, which has since been revealed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in recent memory.

«As a chartered fraud examiner, when the scam called MMM ponzi scheme came with its 30 per cent interest in 30 daysearly last year, I told people then that it was a fraud but many refused to listen and some of them later learnt their lessons in bitter ways.»

He fucked over so many people that the Ponzi scheme will forever be linked with his white - collar black magic.»

Hamlet Peralta, who owned a Harlem restaurant popular with uptown politicians and NYPD brass and is accused of running the $ 12 million Ponzi scheme, also tried to donate $ 4,950 to de Blasio's campaign on Oct. 3, 2013, but his check bounced.

With about three million Nigerians involved in the scheme and huge investments at stake, the freezing of the MMM's accounts a month ago had sparked fears that the ponzi scheme had crashed.

THEY caused this mess with their securitized derivative Ponzi schemes and it's time for THEM to share the damn pain for a change!

A third businessman, Hamlet Peralta, who has ties to Rechnitz and Reichberg, and who also allegedly paid off cops with gifts, was arrested Friday in Georgia due to his involvement in a Ponzi scheme.

According to recently unsealed NY state court documents, Rechnitz was a recruiter for a $ 70 million Ponzi scheme involving Jason Nissen, a former math teacher busted last week and charged by Manhattan federal prosecutors with duping investors of his wholesale ticket business.

J.P. Morgan and Bernie Madoff's associates In 2014, Bharara reached an agreement with JPMorgan Chase requiring the bank to pay $ 2.6 billion to resolve allegations that it turned a blind eye to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

NEW YORK >> A son - in - law of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was charged with defrauding investors out of $ 7 million in a Ponzi scheme, according to a federal complaint.

Outright fraud has plagued emissions markets, whether it's Anne Sholtz building a Ponzi scheme out of smog allowances in Los Angeles or European cheats charging extra for carbon allowances under the guise of collecting a tax and then disappearing with the proceeds.

Perry returns to his signature character of Madea — the sassy, say - anything elderly aunt with a penchant for handguns and stern moralizing — who here is tasked with sheltering the family of accountant George Needleman (Eugene Levy), who is caught up in the federal investigation of a Ponzi scheme.

Robert De Niro plays Bernie Madoff in The Wizard of Lies, an HBO original feature about the superstar financier whose famed investment fund was a fraudulent Ponzi scheme, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Hank Azaria (not rated).

In the book, Daniels writes that Carlo Ponzi — the con man whose name became synonymous with a swindling scheme — would make «an ideal Social Security commissioner.»

Slick, smart «Tower Heist» is a timely comedy caper with Ben Stiller as the infuriated manager of one of New York's most luxurious residences who's determined to wreak revenge against a Wall Street tycoon (Alan Alda) who masterminded a Ponzi scheme that swindled the employees» pension fund.

But for now we're stuck with the consequences and costs of a giant Ponzi scheme: Lawmakers have promised teachers retirement benefits that the system can not afford, because the promises were based on short - term political considerations and willfully bad (or thoroughly incompetent) math.

Lucie joins forces with ex-investment analyst Ian Philips, a disgruntled whistle - blower who's prepared to testify before a government subcommittee that Sir Thomas is running a Ponzi scheme, but Ian «drowns» before he can do so.

It's the guy with a Russian mob connection, who her former client, Ponzi - scheming King Bernard McCall, hired to knock her off.

Im sure he is coming up with his next ponzi scheme idea!

Promissory notes: Often the favored investment vehicle for Ponzi schemes, they are highly speculative and come with overstated promises of return and security.

It can almost turn into a Ponzi scheme, where early recruiters and top recruiters make all the money, and the last ones to arrive to the company are left with product they purchased and can't resell.