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Los Angeles attorney who gave millions to Democrats found guilty of massive Ponzi scheme

Major Democratic donors Convicted He was indicted Tuesday on charges of running a massive Ponzi scheme that siphoned millions of dollars from his victims. Tom Girardi, 85, bragged about the influence he bought from politicians and called himself a “limousine liberal.” According to In the Los Angeles Times. “The clients he wronged for so many […]

Tom Girardi found guilty of embezzling $15m in alleged ponzi scheme | US news

A federal jury in Los Angeles on Tuesday convicted Tom Girardi, a disbarred California attorney who U.S. prosecutors accused of stealing $15 million in settlement money from clients, of four counts of wire fraud, prosecutors announced. Girardi, 85, whose pollution lawsuit against a California utility company was the subject of the Oscar-winning film “Erin Brockovich,” […]

‘Greed, power and fame’: inside pop music’s biggest Ponzi scheme | Documentary

circleWith hundreds of millions of records sold, still going strong into their fourth decade, and praised by the likes of Taylor Swift, boy bands Backstreet Boys and N’Sync are truly pop kings. But they were also the creations of one of America’s biggest criminals, and the new Netflix documentary series Dirty Pop: The Boy Band […]

How Zachary Horwitz pulled off ‘Hollywood’s biggest Ponzi scheme’

An aspiring actor who moved to Hollywood from Indiana starred in “Hollywood’s biggest Ponzi scheme,” raising more than $690 million by convincing family, friends and other investors that he was running a successful film licensing business. According to court documents, Zachary Horowitz, who appeared under the stage name Zach Avery in small roles in films […]

The Great Ponzi Scheme

The fiscal burden of the United States is getting seriously out of hand. The United States is in fiscal trouble. The burden of government spending has increased by nearly $3 trillion over the past 10 years—nearly doubling in just one decade! And that means more resources are diverted from the economy’s productive sector, which is […]