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In May 2012, Joseph Blimline was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for operating two oil and gas Ponzi schemes. He operated a Ponzi scheme from 2003 to 2005 in Michigan, netting over $28 million. He then operated a Ponzi scheme in Texas, using a company called Provident Royalties, that lasted from 2006 to 2009 and netted over $400 million ...
Charles Ponzi was born in Lugo, Emilia-Romagna, Kingdom of Italy on March 3, 1882.He told The New York Times he had come from a family in Parma.Ponzi's ancestors had been well-to-do, and his mother continued to use the title "donna", but the family had subsequently fallen upon difficult times and had little money. [3]
Vito Rizzuto was arrested on January 20, 2004, in Montreal, for his involvement in the May 5, 1981, gangland killings of three rival Bonanno crime family captains (Alphonse Indelicato, Philip Giaccone and Dominick Trinchera) and was sentenced to a 10-year prison sentence on May 4, 2007, after being extradited to the United States. [37]
Aerial view of Bordeaux Prison in the Northern part of the Island of Montreal The prison was also an execution site , where 85 hangings were carried out by Quebec between 1912 and 1960. On Christmas Day, 2022, a 21-year old inmate died after being pepper sprayed by staff while wearing a spit hood in a shower and then left face down in a cell ...
English: Aerial photograph of the Prison de Bordeaux (Établissement de détention de Montréal) in northern Montréal, Québec, Canada. Français : Établissement de détention de Montréal, dans le quartier Bordeaux, Arrondissement Ahuntsic-Cartierville, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
As a juvenile judge, he thought he was sending boys to a moderate-risk program with outdoor wilderness activities. What he found was a hardcore prison. “I came back with all those pictures and I raised hell about it,” Petersen recalled in an interview. He saw small 12-year-olds confined alongside much stronger 17-year-olds.
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Getty Images. A North Texas woman was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for her role in helping her partner con millions of dollars out of senior citizens through an investment business, the ...