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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
(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 ...
Here’s how to keep your eyes peeled for potential Ponzi schemes. Dishonesty taken to the max. Investment firms often try to lure people in with the promise of strong returns and innovative ...
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]
PROVIDENCE – Describing his crimes as an intentional, long-range con game, a federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a West Warwick man to serve eight years in prison for ensnaring 15 people in a ...
In Montreal, Labour Day weekend of 1972 began with two major news events, neither of them well received. On the night of Friday, September 1, four intoxicated men who had been refused entry to a downtown country-and-western bar retaliated by setting the club's steps afire; the ensuing blaze killed 37, the deadliest fire in the city in 45 years ...