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  2. Earl Jones (investment advisor) - Wikipedia

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    Bertram Earl Jones (born June 24, 1942) is a Canadian unlicensed investment adviser who pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that CBC News has reported cost his victims "a conservative estimate of about $51.3 million taken between 1982 and 2009". [1] After pleading guilty to two charges of fraud in 2010, he was sentenced to 11 years in ...

  3. Zach Avery - Wikipedia

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    Zachary Joseph Horwitz (born December 5, 1986 [2]), also known by his stage name Zach Avery, is an American former actor and producer.In 2021, he pleaded guilty to securities fraud for his role in defrauding investors of $227 million through a Ponzi scheme and, as a result, was sentenced to twenty years in prison in 2022.

  4. Charles Ponzi - Wikipedia

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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]

  5. He ensnared 15 people in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme ...

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    More: West Warwick investment manager accused of running $14-million Ponzi scheme “This man kept me in a constant state of fear … and abandonment,” she said.

  6. AP source: Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff dies in prison - AOL

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    Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history, died in a federal prison early Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter told The ...

  7. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  8. US appeals court voids $564 million verdict against Bank of ...

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    (Reuters) -Bank of Montreal persuaded a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to throw out a $564 million jury verdict against a subsidiary over its role in an approximately $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme ...

  9. Juan Ramon Fernandez (gangster) - Wikipedia

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    Bringing strippers for a show in a maximum security prison is not allowed in Canada, but Fernández was so powerful that he was allowed to do so several times in 1994. [9] The most frequent visitors for Fernández were Desjardins's wife who regularly drove up from Montreal to see him and Carole Jacques , a prominent lawyer and a Conservative MP ...