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Former Dallas Cowboy involved in $25 million Ponzi scheme

A former Dallas Cowboys player had a role in a $25 million Ponzi scheme that defrauded a number of North Texas investors, according to the federal government.

California man gets 10 years for Texas Ponzi scheme

More than two dozen investors were likely defrauded in a Ponzi scheme operated by a California man, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday in federal district court.

Ponzi scheme investors move closer to recovery

In a Ponzi scheme, money from new investors is used to pay old ones.

Grand Prairie brothers told to pay $2 million in Ponzi scheme

Two Grand Prairie brothers accused of running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme have been told to pay more than $2 million in restitution and penalties under a federal court order issued Wednesday.

Ex-CFO for R. Allen Stanford gets 5 years in prison

The star prosecution witness at the fraud trial of Texas financier R. Allen Stanford expressed remorse Tuesday before being sentenced to five years in prison for helping to bilk investors out of...

California man pleads guilty in Ponzi scheme

A California man has pleaded guilty in Texas federal court to two counts of securities fraud for running a more than $40 million Ponzi scheme.

Four years after Madoff's arrest, work continues to recover billions

When he was first told in 2008 about Bernard Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme, attorney David Sheehan had a response that now sounds inconceivable.

Stanford hired corporate spies to silence, discredit Ponzi scheme's critics

The disclosures regarding Kroll's work for Stanford come as a string of governmental investigations and private lawsuits surrounding those who allegedly aided Stanford's Ponzi scheme heat up.

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Shapiro, 44, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for securities fraud and money laundering...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.: Ponzi lawyer Rothstein's wife seeks sentence delay

The wife of convicted Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein has won a three-month delay in her...

Online money swings wildly

"People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble," said Cameron Winkelvoss.

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Bernie Madoff's Life in Prison

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Bankia compensation qualms signal loss of faith in Spain's banks

MC) are shunning a state-supervised compensation scheme in favor of expensive lawsuits,...

Morgan Stanley sued in 'pay-to-play' retirement plan case

N) and others in exchange for extra fees in an illegal "pay-to-play" scheme.

China Sentences Businesswoman to Death

Investor Scheme Leads to Death Sentence