SCI Bankruptcy Trustee Files Adversary Clawback Lawsuit Against 114...
Dunder Mifflin Hackard Law attorneys regularly represent plaintiffs and defendants in adversary cases, including clawbacks, in federal bankruptcy courts. The process of representation is often...
View ArticlePretend Hedge-Fund Star Left $4,000 Tip at Hollywood Nightclub “Specifically...
New Line Cinema George Sepero of Glen Rock, NJ, has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of fraud in connection with a $3.5 million Ponzi scheme. The 40-year-old Sepero ran a web of phony hedge funds and...
View Article“Entrepreneur of the Year” Charmed Wealthy Investors, White House Out of $50...
americanswindlers.com Claudio Osorio of Miami, FL, admitted responsibility in US District Court last week to running a large-scale investment scam. Under his plea agreement with federal prosecutors,...
View ArticleSlapstick Movie Actor to Plead Guilty in $10 Million Ponzi Scheme
Mari Films Just a few short years ago, Donald French was on the verge of saving the world. Or at least he was promoting a movie in which he and his kid brother would rescue the planet just by standing...
View ArticleWilton Manors Ponzi Schemer Ducks out of Trial with Guilty Plea
“I don’t have much money, but boy, if I did…” Image: Youtube acct. Welcatroika Three days into his trial for operating an $11 million Ponzi scheme that ensnared 40 investors from the Wilton Manors gay...
View ArticlePonzi Poster: Ephren Taylor, No-Cares “Billionaire”
This week’s Ponzi Poster features Ephren Taylor, accused of running an $11 million Ponzi scheme through his company City Capital Corporation. The smooth-talking son of a preacher man, Taylor billed...
View ArticleAlleged Ponzi Schemer Invested in Pipe Bombs
Walt Disney Company/The Muppets Philadelphia, PA, resident Istvan “Steve” Merchenthaler, indicted last year for running a $2 million Ponzi scheme, has been linked to the discovery of dozens of...
View ArticleFormer Model Ran $7 Million Ponzi Scheme
Adult Swim Orlando resident and former model Tina Louise Mangiardi decided to make a plea agreement with the US Attorney’s Office in the wake of a $7 million construction Ponzi scheme that swindled 40...
View ArticleFugitive Music Producer Turns Self in over Ponzi Charges
I need more capital, baby! SNL/NBC After almost six years as a man on the run, international fugitive music producer Peter Heckman decided to call it quits and surrender to authorities. Heckman, 63,...
View ArticleMan With Own Financial Gravity Had Golden Touch
Universal Studios John Bravata advertises himself as “a man with his own gravity” who “spends his time acquiring commercial real estate, merging and turning businesses into gold.” Yet because of a...
View ArticleStanford Ponzi Case Hits Supreme Court
supremecourtus.gov Despite the government shutdown, the US Supreme Court is back in session, and its first order of business is connected with the second-largest investment fraud case in American...
View ArticleLawyer in Ponzi Diamond Caper Gets 3 Years
disney.wikia.com Another page was turned in Scott Rothstein’s never-ending Ponzi story when lawyer Scott Saidel was sentenced to 3 years in federal prison. The verdict was issued in Fort Lauderdale...
View ArticlePetters Ponzi Feeder Sentenced
Hanna-Barbera James Fry, the investment manager who funneled mountains of cash into Thomas Petters’ $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme, received a sentence of 17.5 years in federal prison today in US District...
View ArticlePonzi Roundup: Nobel Nominee Sentenced, More Petters Fallout, No Bail for...
CBS Isreal Owen Hawkins: The man who nominated himself to the Nobel Peace Prize for running a large-scale oil and gold scam ended up being rewarded with federal prison time instead. Enterprising...
View ArticleShock as “Getmoni.com” Revealed to be Scam
Warner Bros. After the stunning revelation that a high-yield program promisingly named “Getmoni.com” was a Ponzi scheme, one of its promoters was sentenced to 6 years in prison. Flint, MI, tax planner...
View ArticleSacramento Residents Continually Targeted by Investment Fraud
sacbee.com The Sacramento area is unfortunately no stranger to investment fraud, as the news headlines regularly attest. Scammers use a variety of techniques and ruses to steal other people’s money...
View ArticlePrime Bank Schemer Guaranteed “Pots of Money”
Walt Disney Co. Two Lansing, MI, men have been charged by state authorities with money laundering in the aftermath of a $9 million Ponzi scheme. 58-year-old Doug Kacos, owner of the New Beginnings...
View ArticleClown Banking Proved a Bust for Scammers
Paramount Pictures Two prime bank scammers have been sentenced to federal prison time in US District Court after their being found guilty on charges of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering. Canadian...
View ArticleProsecutors Call Bull on “Buffalo” Investments
Starfire Pictures A Belgrade, MT, man accused of operating a large-scale investment scam is scheduled to go to trial on December 3rd. Richard F. Reynolds, also known as Richard F. Adkins, is said by...
View Article$11 Million Sacramento Ponzi Suspect Lived it Up in a Lambo
New Line Cinema A Sacramento man finds himself under the gavel after he possibly splurged others’ fortunes on a lifestyle of champagne riches and caviar dreams. Christopher Jackson, 46, was indicted...
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