Investors who put millions of pounds into Brazilian property investments – hoping to profit from the "World Cup effect" – are now pinning their hopes on a legal action to reclaim some of their money.
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Pennsylvania Advisor Arrested In Massive Ponzi Scheme Financial Advisor Magazine A Pennsylvania woman was arrested earlier this month on charges that she orchestrated a massive Ponzi scheme that some attorneys say may have cost her former clients... 
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Sheriff warns of warrant scam Billings Gazette In the scam, the caller contacts potential victims via telephone and tells them that they'll be arrested if they don't send money, either by debit or credit card or MoneyGram, a deputy will be sent...
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The top antitrust enforcer for the European Commission says that the British financial firm ICAP colluded to try to fix a benchmark interest rate tied to the yen.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
In the world of finance, shameless cheats are a dime-a-dozen.
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Wayne County Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz said the county is owed millions of dollars by landlords who haven't paid their taxes.
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Trial is set to begin for two brothers charged with making a fake $2 million claim to the Boston Marathon victims' fund using the name of an aunt who has been dead...
Anonymous Hades's insight:
There's a special place in Hell for people who create scams and commit crimes that use the names of the dead to profit from others by illicit means.
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An Albuquerque building contractor and developer was sentenced Thursday for defrauding a federal program that sets aside contracts for businesses owned by service-disabled veterans, including work at the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
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Federal officials say the operation led to more than $42 million in losses.
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The former CEO and owner of a Frisco-based company that provided insurance to Virginia Tech students was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in federal prison.
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Sandy Jenkins, the longtime corporate controller for Corsicana’s Collin Street Bakery arrested last year, has pleaded guilty to three felony counts stemming from accusations that he embezzled $16 million to fund a lavish lifestyle.
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An insurance salesman has been convicted in a $46 million scheme involving more than 800 families and unsophisticated elderly investors.
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Robert Garcia-Esquerro vanished after leaving Key West Saturday aboard a 28-foot boat. He had told his wife he was going fishing.
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Dr. David Allen, who referred to himself as a close personal friend of Jim Donnan, testified that the former Georgia football coach implored him to invest the Allen family nest egg — $1 million — into GLC Limited in July 2010.
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A Chesapeake defense contractor will spend four years in prison for paying bribes to public officials.
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'Ponzi scheme' costs investors more than $200K Appleton Post Crescent “This is the worst Ponzi scheme you have ever seen,” said Brian Mahany, a Milwaukee attorney who represents some of the more than 500 who invested in projects headed by Cabot...
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"It's just bad government to not let members of the public and the media interview taxpayer-funded staff."
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It's no secret that the mavens of #BigOil are prepared to take a dump on voters everywhere, via #fracking & #tarsands. It's not just bad #government or it's bad #business relations to hide what poisons they're putting in our land & our water.
They don't care if our #kids and loved ones get sick & die. In fact it looks like that's what the #poisonous parasites of the #energy industry want to accomplish, and that's just plain #evil.
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The authorities are investigating loans based on collateral of metals at a Chinese port, with implications for Western banks and the Chinese credit market.
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She pleaded guilty to mail fraud stemming from her falsifying documents in 13 real estate closings.
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A new email scam uses legitimate news of a Kansas City man's lottery windfall to convince people around the country that for a few hundred dollars they can have a big chunk of that pie.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
The problem here lies in the fact that those who got scammed coveted someone else's money. If not for the covetousness and greediness of the "victims", there would have been no victims to report.
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A Potomac, Maryland man will spend the next 20 years in prison after he tricked dozens of people into investing into homes that were not on sale in the first place.
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Tucson Police have arrested six people in connection with an international credit card and fraud ring.
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Man Found Guilty In $46 Million Ponzi Scheme CBS Local David McQueen, of Byron Center, was convicted Friday by a federal court jury in Grand Rapids of six counts of mail fraud, six counts of money laundering and three tax counts stemming from a...
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The man at the centre of the Commonwealth Bank financial planning scandal that sparked a senate inquiry has lashed out at the bank, claiming it never properly trained him or supervised his activities.
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WORCESTER — James Merrill, co-owner of TelexFree, a Marlboro company that has been called a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, was arrested Friday in Worcester on new, criminal charges.
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Mike Rosinski, 51, doesn’t really know how a string of fraudulent charges ranging from as little as $3.19 for some odd outfit in Missouri to $434.10 at a Fry’s Electronics in another state ended up hitting his Visa credit card in mid-April.
Anonymous Hades's insight:
Always keep an eye out for the scammers who try to "skim the cream" from the top of your credit card balance.
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