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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]
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 ...
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]
On December 20, 2012, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involvement in the Ponzi scheme. [49] He was previously serving his sentence at FCI-Miami, and then was in the custody of RRM Miami which is the Residential Reentry Management (RRM) Miami field office, a so-called "halfway house".
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 ...
In December 1977, Violi was released from Bordeaux prison as he completed his sentence for contempt of the royal commission and become a marked man. [29] Just before Christmas 1977, Vito Rizzuto and Violi met face-to-face in the home of a Montreal resident for a last-ditch effort to resolve their differences, according to a police report. [29]
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.
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.