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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 ...
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.
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]
As part of an investigation into James Slattery's private prison empire, The Huffington Post analyzed thousands of pages of court transcripts, police reports, state audits and inspection records obtained through state public records laws. Many of the documents behind the series are annotated below.
Plans for third floor of the prison c.1838. The original plan for a prison in Montreal was designed by Quebec architect George Blaiklock in 1825 to replace the prison at Champ de Mars (built in the first decade of the 19th Century), [1] but John Wells ultimately designed the building (after a prison in Philadelphia, likely the Eastern State Penitentiary built in 1829) that was finally opened a ...
Over the past quarter century, Slattery’s for-profit prison enterprises have run afoul of the Justice Department and authorities in New York, Florida, Maryland, Nevada and Texas for alleged offenses ranging from condoning abuse of inmates to plying politicians with undisclosed gifts while seeking to secure state contracts.
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.
Many countries have different laws and customs for men and women, what may be allowed or perceived often varies by gender. [ 1 ] Separate laws are usually in place to regulate obscenity , which includes certain depictions of people in various states of undress, and child pornography , which may include similar photographs of children.