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What is a Ponzi Scheme?
The Ponzi scheme was named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using the fraudulent investment technique in the early 1900s...

Madoff: the biggest ever Ponzi scheme?
The global financial crisis has affected a wide range of investors. It has also exposed major frauds such as Bernie Madoff's alleged US$50 billion Ponzi scheme (Story: NPR)...

Does Bernie Madoff Have Victims or Accomplices?
Everyone acted surprised when Bernie Madoff's hedge fund was exposed as a Ponzi scheme...

Another Ponzi Scheme Costs Investors Millions in California
Norwalk, CA: People these days who are just hanging on by their teeth economically could be forgiven in their vilifying of people like Milton Retana for ripping innocent people off through alleged Ponzi fraud...

Posner on Madoff
Did Bernie Madoff have the perfect Ponzi scheme? Perhaps not, because in the end, Madoff was caught...

Madoff Ponzi Scheme and Structured Settlements. Any Exposure?
As the extent of the fallout from the massive Madoff Ponzi scheme continues to unfold, the breadth of investors and firms affected is already staggering...

Wesley A. Snyder et al.
alleging the consultants perpetrated a Ponzi scheme by encouraging borrowers to lend more than they needed.

Hershey Co. et al.
allegedly involved in a chocolate price fixing scheme.