NEW YORK ( Reuters ) - A Long Island man was sentenced to 25 years in prison Friday after admitting to stealing more than $195 million from thousands of investors in the course of a five-year, $400-million Ponzi scheme. Nicholas Cosmo , 40, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley to repay $179 million to more than 4,000 investors who thought they were investing in short-term commercial bridge loans through Cosmo's two Long Island-based companies, Agape World Inc and Agape Merchant...Read Full Story
NEW YORK ( Reuters ) - A former NBA player and chief executive officer of a New Jersey real estate development firm surrendered to federal authorities on Friday on charges of running a $2 million Ponzi scheme. Tate George , 43, who once played for the New Jersey Nets and Milwaukee Bucks , allegedly collected money from investors from 2005 through March of this year and deposited it in the bank accounts of his company, which he claimed was a real estate investment firm, authorities said...Read Full Story
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey woman was arrested on Wednesday and charged with running a $45 million Ponzi scheme in which she allegedly promised investors high returns from real estate, but instead used their money to repay other investors and gamble at casinos. Antoinette Hodgson, 58, was charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy, according to a complaint unsealed in Manhattan federal court and announced by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara. Prosecutors accused the...Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A West Point graduate who claimed his knowledge of physics allowed him to predict "with an uncanny degree of certainty" trends in the futures market was accused on Monday in Ohio of perpetrating a $30 million Ponzi scheme. Federal prosecutors charged Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, resident Enrique Villalba, 47, with one count of wire fraud for allegedly scamming 26 investors out of $29.7 million through the sale and purchase of futures contracts. Villalba, who also has a law...Read Full Story
A Denver man allegedly defrauded people in a national Ponzi scheme involving more than $12 million that was supposed to go real estate investments, the Colorado securities commissioner said. Investigators contend Jerrald Green, 48, used investors' money to buy condos for himself in downtown Denver and to open two brokerage accounts, which incurred substantial losses. Commissioner Fred J. Joseph said Tuesday in a complaint filed in Denver District Court that Green received $12.5 million from...Read Full Story
A Shanghai woman was charged with fraud in a 150-million-yuan (US$25 million) Ponzi scheme, local prosecutors said yesterday.
Shan Yuanyuan, president of Shanghai Sanco Trade Co Ltd, claimed she was able to get...
60-year-old Martin formed Queen Shoals Consultants in 2007 and convinced victims to invest millions of dollars with the firm, which prosecutors say was a Ponzi scheme operated by Sidney Hanson. Hanson never directly told Martin that Queen Shoals was a ...
HOUSTON — With testimony about bribes, blood oaths, faked profits and secret Swiss bank accounts, the fraud trial of former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford has had its share of drama. Many details of the alleged $7 billion-plus ...
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They include Texas Tech's Billy Gillispie, Baylor's Scott Drew, former Arizona coach Lute Olson and former Utah coach ... bilked more than 100 investors out of $39 million by selling corporate bonds that didn't exist. It also contends that ...
DALLAS — Investors are saying they lost more than $50 million in a Ponzi scheme allegedly orchestrated by David Salinas, the Houston financial adviser with close ties to college basketball who committed suicide last year.
A report filed by the court-appointed receiver in the Securities and Exchange Commission's suit against Salinas' estate said 130 people or entities have filed 259 claims seeking $51 million for their losses, most the result...
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Jan. 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. authorities are searching for a New York businessman after failing to arrest him today in connection with an alleged $380 million Ponzi scheme, a person familiar with the c
In this unique collection of handcrafted, usable works of art Nicholas Cosmo takes inspiration from familiar objects and masterfully transforms them into ...
Sir Nicholas Cosmo Bonsor, 4th Baronet DL (born 9 December 1942) is a British Conservative politician. Bonsor was Member of Parliament for Nantwich from 1979 to 1983, then for ...
Thanks for the tip , actually I feel a little stupid, as all you have to do is type Nicholas-Cosmo bankruptcy in Google to find that he just filed bankruptcy for a different company