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Millenium Capital Exchange CEO Sentenced to Federal Prison for Running Forex Ponzi Scheme
September 3rd, 2015
Stafford S. Maxwell, the former owner and Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Capital Exchange, Inc., was sentenced to three years, nine months years in prison for orchestrating a multi-million dollar foreign exchange market Ponzi scheme. “With false promises of ...
Federal Court Enters Judgment against Ron Earl McCullough and David Christopher Mayhew in Foreign Currency Ponzi Scheme
August 31st, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Senior Judge James C. Fox of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina entered a default judgment Order against Defendants Ron Earl McCullough and David Christopher Mayhew, both from ...
$76 Million penalties for Forex Ponzi Scheme
August 3rd, 2015
In Related Criminal Actions, Simmons Sentenced to 40 Years’ and Salazar Sentenced to 4.5 Years’ Incarceration and Ordered to Pay in Total $40 Million in Criminal Restitution Both Simmons and Salazar Currently are Serving Their Prison Sentences The U.S. ...
SEC Charges Purported Investment Adviser With Stealing Client Funds and Conducting a Ponzi Scheme
July 17th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a purported investment adviser in San Diego with stealing money from clients for personal use and conducting a Ponzi scheme to pay customers making redemption requests. In a complaint filed in federal court in ...
SEC Charges Former Stockbroker With Conducting Ponzi Scheme
July 2nd, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a former stockbroker in Pennsylvania with conducting a Ponzi scheme and stealing investor money to purchase a condominium in Florida and afford his own vacations and other luxuries. The SEC alleges that ...
Possible $500,000 Bitcoin Cloud Mining Ponzi Scheme Uncovered
June 8th, 2015
Roughly nine months ago, Bitcoin Foundation Chief Scientist Gavin Andresen made a rather interesting comment on Reddit in which he claimed, “I suspect many will turn out to be Ponzi schemes.” There have been a few cloud mining scams uncovered ...
Alleged Ponzi scheme operator faces court
May 26th, 2015
Following an ASIC investigation, an Adelaide man has faced court accused of deception totalling $12 million. Former mortgage broker Michael Samra faced Adelaide Magistrates Court on 22 May 2015 charged with 12 counts of deception. ASIC alleges Mr Samra ...
Melbourne lawyer jailed for 12 years for $12m Ponzi fraud
December 10th, 2014
‘Many of your victims trusted you because you were a family member or friend, you exploited their trust for your own personal gain,’ judge tells Philip Linacre A Melbourne lawyer who stole from grieving widows, a famous musician and ...
Currency trader whizz kid ‘masterminded £5.5m Ponzi fraud’
December 4th, 2014
A foreign currency trader used investors’ cash as his “personal piggy-bank” and blew £1 million in casinos and £500,000 in nightclubs, a court heard. Financial whizz kid Alex Hope, 25, masterminded a £5.5m Ponzi fraud to fund his hedonistic lifestyle ...
World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
