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The Bennett Funding Group was a leasing & funding company based in Syracuse, New York.BFG operated under the Bennett Receivables Corporation, Bennett Receivables Corporation II, Bennett Management and Development Corporation, +++The Processing Center, Inc., Resort Service Company, Inc., American Marine International, Ltd., Aloha Leasing, and Aloha Capital Corporation brands.
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 ...
Donald Anthony Walker Young, who is known as Tony Young or Walker Young, was the owner of Acorn Investments and Acorn II L.P..He was indicted, [1] [2] pleaded guilty and was sentenced for running a $25 million Ponzi scheme.
A South Florida woman is being sentenced to 20 years for leading a $190.7M Ponzi scheme — victims were ‘blindsided’ and ‘devastated.’ Here’s how it worked and how to spot similar scams
Weinstein had, at that point, served eight years of a 24-year sentence for his role in a $200 million real estate Ponzi scheme that preyed on fellow members of the Orthodox Jewish community in ...
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James "Jim" Paul Lewis Jr. operated one of the largest and longest running Ponzi schemes in United States history. [1] [2] Over approx. 20 years, Lewis collected around $311 million U.S. dollars from investors. He operated under the name of Financial Advisory Consultants in Lake Forest, Calif., and promised high returns.
The term “Ponzi scheme” — named for a mass swindle perpetrated by Charles Ponzi in the 1920s — refers to a fraudulent setup where an investment manager pays out returns to existing ...