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- Pimco Boss: US Economy's One Giant Ponzi Scheme
- Madoff is just a fall guy, according to Pimco managing director Bill Gross. "Madoff’s scheme has a host of culpable look-alikes and one has only to begin with the mortgage market to understand the similarities," writes Gross in a slightly ranty January investment newsletter. As the UK's...
- Blog posts 2009-01-09
- Tax Relief for Fraud Victims
- If any of your money disappeared down the rathole known as Bernie Madoff or any of the similar Ponzi operations that came to light last year, the Internal Revenue Service offers you some relief, if not much sympathy. How financial victims can get the tax breaks they deserve... If...
- Articles 2009-03-05
- New Rules For Madoff Victims
- Infuriated investors who lost massive funds due to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme may receive some of their money back. As Randall Pinkston reports, the IRS has issued new guidelines for fraud victims.
- Videos 2009-03-17
- Tracing Missing Madoff Money
- Victims who have lost massive amounts of money due to Bernie Madoff?s infamous Ponzi scheme are now desperately searching for their missing investment funds. Priya David reports.
- Videos 2009-03-15
- Madoff To Plead Guilty
- Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty to orchestrating one of the biggest frauds in U.S. history. Madoff insists he acted alone but prosecutors believe he had help. Armen Keteyian reports.
- Videos 2009-03-11
- Holocaust Survivor On Madoff
- CBS News Exclusive: An acclaimed author and Noble Peace Prize winner, Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel tells Jeff Greenfield about how he has lost almost everything to the Bernie Madoff scandal.
- Videos 2009-05-16
- Madoff Victims: What Will They Get Back?
- Defrauded investors are on a mission to recover some of their $65 billion in phantom funds. At least they'll get a tax break. Bernard Madoff ...
- Articles 2009-07-24
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- Government's Ponzi Scheme: 1000 Times Worse than Madoff's
- Anton Wahlman submits: By now we have heard about Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme, where the life savings of at least hundreds of people – perhaps thousands – went up in smoke. We are all being told that this represents the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time, by...
- External links 2008-12-19
- The Rip-Off that Makes Madoff's Ponzi Pale
- Â Bernard Madoff is small fry. There's a worldwide Ponzi scheme that is ripping off an entire generation. Madoff lost $50bn in his Ponzi scheme, where new money pays for the returns of existing members. That is small fry compared to the intergenerational rip-off...
- Blog posts 2008-12-17
- Wall Street's $300 Billion 'Ponzi Scheme'
- Jeffrey Korzenik submits: A Ponzi scheme is defined as a phony investment program where the introduction of new funds is used to create “profits” for those already in the game. Ponzi schemes typically have some purported economic rationale for the profits, but at the end of the day,...
- External links 2009-02-10
- SEC Sues California's MicroWest Industries Over Alleged Ponzi Scheme.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
- Sep. 18--The Securities and Exchange Commission sued an Irvine company Wednesday, alleging that it cheated 190 investors out of $4.25 million in a Ponzi scheme. Sep. 18--The Securities and Exchange Commission sued an Irvine company Wednesday, alleging that it cheated 190...
- Research articles 1997-09-18
- Gamble on ex-con rep backfires; Broker charged with $2.25M Ponzi scheme was under Lincoln's supervision till Dec.(News)
- Byline: Bruce Kelly NEW YORK - A registered representative and convicted felon affiliated with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp. until December is facing charges of stealing $2.25 million from nine clients in a Ponzi scheme that went to pay hi ...
- Research articles 2006-03-20
- Investors in Ponzi scheme get no sympathy from IRS.(INVESTMENTS)(Brief Article)
- Investors in a Ponzi scheme get no sympathy from the IRS. Investors in a Ponzi scheme get no sympathy from the IRS.
- Research articles 2005-01-14
- The Great American Ponzi Scheme (Part I)
- Mortgage banking, for the last ten years or so, has been the biggest Ponzi scheme ever conceived and it has all been legal. Builders, developers, and bankers have been perpetrating what amounts to outright fraud on the American consumer. Don't get me wrong, it is the greed of those consumers...
- External links 2008-12-24
- The Great American Ponzi Scheme (Part II)
- (Continued from The Great American Ponzi Scheme: Part I) The government didn't step in to regulate these credit default swaps because a boom in all these industries makes people happy - happy enough to re-elect those in office, happy enough to pay more taxes. By the way, because the...
- External links 2008-12-26
- Report: Schick Ran 'Ponzi Scheme'
- Forward 12-13-1996 Report: Schick Ran `Ponzi Scheme'. FORWARD STAFF NEW YORK -- After performing "numerous interviews" and reviewing thousands of documents, the bankruptcy trustee handling the estate of David Schick -- the Orthodox lawyer arrested last spring for pilfering millions of dollars...
- Research articles 1996-12-13
- Tom Petters Goes To Trial In History's Second-Largest Hedge Fund Ponzi Scheme
- Ed's Note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Fingerhut had filed for bankruptcy protection. That correction has been made. In Minnesota this week, a trial is quietly getting underway to prosecute the alleged mastermind behind the second largest Ponzi scheme in history....
- Blog posts 2009-10-27
- SEC Busts Giant Ponzi Scheme
- Ponzi schemes seem to be basically affinity scams, built off of ethnic solidarity. Maybe investors should only trust people who aren't their co-ethnics. We could call it "ethnic investment diversification." Or maybe it's a Florida thing. Even Dick Fuld had a place in the Sunshine State. Should the rule be...
- News items 2009-08-07
- SEC Busts Another Ponzi!
- The SEC is on a roll, making its second Ponzi bust since the Bernie Madoff scandal. Ok, it's not $50 billion, try $50 million: The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Philadelphia-area investment fund manager and his firm for conducting a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme, and has obtained an...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Ex-SEC Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Dreier Ponzi Fraud
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former enforcement lawyer with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pleaded guilty to impersonating two people to help confessed Ponzi scheme operator Marc Dreier defraud hedge funds.Appearing in Manhattan federal court on Monday, Robert Miller, 52, admitted to fraud in the attempted sale of a...
- News items 2009-11-09
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