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  2. DuPage County joint operation shuts down 350 fraudulent ... - AOL

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    May 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM. DUPAGE COUNTY, Ill. - A sting operation targeting online scams in DuPage County shut down hundreds of fake foreign websites attempting to extract money from consumers. The ...

  3. What's a Ponzi scheme and who is Ponzi? UA business ... - AOL

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    Madoff’s scheme lasted 20 years and defrauded investors out of $65 billion. He pled guilty to 11 federal felonies in March 2009, including securities fraud, money laundering, and mail and wire ...

  4. Recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal

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    The recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal has been underway since the scandal broke in December 2008. That month, recovery trustee Irving Picard received funds from the Bank of New York account where Bernard Madoff held new investments into his Ponzi scheme. As it has been concluded that no legitimate investments were made on the ...

  5. List of corporate collapses and scandals - Wikipedia

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    A corporate collapse typically involves the insolvency or bankruptcy of a major business enterprise. A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved false or inappropriate accounting of some sort (see list at ...

  6. Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia

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    A Ponzi scheme ( / ˈpɒnzi /, Italian: [ˈpontsi]) is a form of fraud that lures investors and pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors. [1] Named after Italian businessman Charles Ponzi, this type of scheme misleads investors by either falsely suggesting that profits are derived from legitimate business ...

  7. Madoff investment scandal - Wikipedia

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    The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. [1] In December of that year, Bernie Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman and founder of the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate multi-billion ...

  8. Bernie Madoff - Wikipedia

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    Date apprehended. December 11, 2008. Bernard Lawrence Madoff ( / ˈmeɪdɔːf / MAY-dawf; [2] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American financial criminal and financier who was the admitted mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme in history, worth an estimated $65 billion. [3] [4] He was at one time chairman of the Nasdaq stock ...

  9. Securities fraud - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Securities fraud, also known as stock fraud and investment fraud, is a deceptive practice in the stock or commodities markets that induces investors to make purchase or sale decisions on the basis of false information. [1] [failed verification] [2] [3] The setups are generally made to result in monetary gain for the deceivers, and ...