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Ponzi Scheme Victims Speak Out
Katie Couric speaks with several investors who lost substantial amounts of money in a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Wall Street financier Bernie Madoff, who recently pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
Tags: MoneyWatch, Katie Couric, Financial Accounting, Finance, Breaking News, Evening, Interview, Couric, Madoff, Invest, Scam, Fraud, Crime, New York, Wall Street, Savings, Con, Steal, Theft, Billions, Money, Swindler
Videos 2009-03-12
Madoff Faces 150 Year Sentence
Alleged $50 billion con man investor Bernie Madoff is expected to plead guilty to 11 felony charges at a Manhattan federal court and could receive a 150 year jail sentence. Randall Pinkston reports.
Tags: Sentence, MoneyWatch, Financial Accounting, Finance, Breaking News, Evening, Business, Wall Street, New York, Invest, Scam, Scandal, Con, Swindler, Billion, Stock, Trade, Recession, Corruption, Madoff
Videos 2009-03-10

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Swindler receives March 15 parole date
POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN -- Swindler Wayne Ogden is scheduled to be released from prison again. Ogden has been given a tentative March 15 parole date. Amid four lawsuits and an ongoing FBI investigation, the former Weber County real estate agent was returned to prison Sept....
Tags: FBI, Government
Research articles 2004-02-01
Bad target: Japanese swindler fails to con cop
TOKYO AFP — A Japanese swindler truly picked the wrong building to target when a stranger he tried to scam turned out to be a senior police officer. Masakazu Kamitanida, 52, went to the top floor of a three-story apartment after midnight Sunday and tried to pass himself off...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, apartment, officer, spokesman
Research articles 2006-04-10
Former swindler warns Asia's casinos they can't beat cheats
SINGAPORE AFP — Casinos in Asia, take heed: There is no such thing as a foolproof hi-tech system for catching professional cheats. That's the warning from former swindler Richard Marcus, who says he ripped off 20 million US dollars from the world's gaming tables over more than two decades....
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Asia, casino, Games, Macau, Singapore
Research articles 2007-04-30
Dealers may tell swindler tales 6 car dealerships have not pursued charges against grandmother.(News)
Byline: Kara Spak Daily Herald Legal Affairs Writer When 76-year-old convicted car swindler Betty Gooch faces a Cook County jury Sept. 13, prosecutors will attempt to prove she stole a Toyota Sienna and Toyota Matrix by writing bad checks to an Elgin Toyota dealership....
Tags: car, Chrysler LLC, Cook, prosecutor, Toyota Motor Corp.
Research articles 2004-07-22
Elderly swindler likely isn't going free.(News)
Byline: Kara Spak Daily Herald Staff Writer Wheelchair bound and hard of hearing, 75-year-old convicted swindler Betty Gooch learned Friday she likely won't be going home June 30 when her prison sentence is complete. Instead, Gooch will be transferred to Cook County...
Tags: car, Cook, probation, Toyota Motor Corp.
Research articles 2004-06-05
Stock Swindler Diverted Cash to Casino Ship.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Sep. 29--While creditors of alleged penny stock swindler Robert E. Brennan were scouring the globe for millions of dollars he is alleged to have hidden, more than $12 million may have been floating dockside just eight miles from Brennans Florida home, authorities now contend. ...
Tags: bankruptcy, creditor, Litigation, Palm Inc., SEC, stock, vessel
Research articles 2000-09-29
Accused swindler arrested.
Accused Swindler Arrested--An Indiana engineer is accused of swindling the state and Indiana University IU out of tens of thousands of dollars by overbilling them for computer services, several state-based news organizations reported. Shawn Solomon, 28, is accused of billing the state and IU nearly $100,000...
Tags: Indiana University, PRODUCTIVITY
Research articles 2005-01-01
Programming. (People: Fates & Fortunes).(personnel changes)(Brief Article)
Hilary Estey McLoughlin, senior VP, programming and development, Telepictures Productions, New York, promoted to executive VP/GM. Edward Swindler, VP, day-part forecasting, NBC and MSNBC, New York, promoted to senior VP, NBC sales strategy, pl Hilary Estey McLoughlin, senior VP,...
Tags: NBC Universal Inc., programming, TV
Research articles 2002-08-05
Lawsuit Says $50 Million Investment Scam Targeted Chinese Immigrants. (Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
Aug. 4--An Orange attorney, an admitted savings-and-loan swindler, helped take $50 million from Chinese immigrants in an investment scam, a lawsuit alleges. Aug. 4--An Orange attorney, an admitted savings-and-loan swindler, helped take $50 million from Chinese immigrants in an investment scam, a lawsuit alleges.
Tags: immigrant, lawsuit, Orange PCS
Research articles 1993-08-03
Forbes acquitted in libel suit - Shape Inc - Update
A Portland, Maine, jury ruled recently that Forbes did not defame the founders of a company whose financial dealings the magazine described by using the name of a 1920s swindler, Charles Ponzi.
Tags: Forbes
Research articles 1991-10-01
Adelphia swindler dies in prison cell.(Courts)(Adelphia Communications Corp.,)
A former Adelphia Communications Corp. employee who had pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the MSO out of $2.1 million was found dead in his Lehigh County, Pa., prison cell on July 13, according to prison officials. The dead man's name...
Tags: Adelphia Communications Corp.
Research articles 2004-07-19
EBay laptop swindler gets 4 years in prison.
By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Tags: eBay Inc., laptop computer
Research articles 2004-10-13
Cox's Representation of Financial Swindler Exposed, Should Disqualify Him from SEC Post, Says FTCR
SANTA MONICA, Calif., June 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- President Bush's pick to lead the Securities Exchange Commission helped cover up one of the nation's biggest investment frauds, according to documents released today by the Foundation for Taxpayer and ConsumSANTA MONICA, Calif., June 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- President Bush's pick to...
Tags: Cox, financial, SEC, Taxpayer
Research articles 2005-06-09
RUSSIA: FBI AND MVD WORK TOGETHER TO ARREST ACCUSED SWINDLER.(Russian Interior Ministry and Federal Bureau of Investigation arrest Gennadii Vostretsov)(Brief Article)
In a joint operation of the FBI and the Russian Interior Ministry, Moscow police on 3 January arrested Gennadii Vostretsov, also known as Gennadii Arzhanik, who is accused of obtaining through different fraud activities over $3 million from the citiz In a joint operation of the...
Tags: FBI
Research articles 2002-01-08
A Pardon's Path
Arthur Levitt Jr. didn't hide his feelings. On the morning of Jan. 19, the day before Bill Clinton left office, the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman got a phone call from a top White House official. The official told Levitt that the president was preparing a last-minute pardon for accused...
Tags: E-mail, FINANCE, lawyer, Marc, president, prosecutor, Taxes, White House
Research articles 2001-02-19
The key to a successful burglary? Try the French police
PARIS AFP — A swindler posing as the owner of a jewelery store outside Paris managed to steal a set of luxury pens and watches with the unwitting help of local police and a locksmith, police said on Saturday. Claiming to be the owner of a jewelery store a...
Tags: Agence France-Presse, Paris
Research articles 2004-11-13
Uncle 'WorldCom' Sam ultimate swindler
Government's Accounting Practices Even More Corrupt Because of the $3.8-billion WorldCom scandal and a few other corrupt companies, many critics are yelping that capitalism doesn't work and we need more government to fix things. Yet when Uncle Sam "mispays" $100 billion every year, those critics go mum. Washington's multi-billion dollar...
Tags: accounting, FINANCE, financial, Government, Pentagon, SOFTWARE, WorldCom Inc.
Research articles 2002-07-22
Letters
BALLOT BATTLE 200, 201 too restrictive for a growing city This in response to recent editorials and articles appearing in The Gazette. I have been called a liar, a swindler and a person who should be thrown in jail and out...
Tags: FINANCE, Government, inflation, Republican, Taxes, U.S. Congress
Research articles 2006-10-26
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