A trailer into the story of Charles Ponzi, the infamous scammer. Learn about Ponzi schemes, their impact, and how they earned their infamous name.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — The founder of a Georgia-based financial advisory group faces several years in prison after pleading guilty to ...

Thousands of clients trusted Todd Burkhalter to invest their money in high-yielding real estate loans. In reality, Burkhalter was running a massive Ponzi scheme while splurging on motorcoaches and ...

Prosecutors called it the largest criminal fraud scheme in the history of the area.

Everything is fine until the scheme runs out of new investors and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. We still hear about Ponzi schemes, or pyramid schemes, as they are more frequently ...

A Georgia man pleaded guilty to wire fraud in US federal court on Wednesday after engineering “the largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia history,” defrauding over 2,000 investors of over $380 million. The ...

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"[T]he courts are kind of catching up to the amount of damage that these guys do. The sentences are getting longer, which is a good thing," said Jason Kellogg, partner at Levine Kellogg Lehman ...

LONDON (Reuters) -HSBC Holdings said on Monday it would book a $1.1 billion provision in its third-quarter results after losing part of an appeal in a long-running lawsuit tied to Bernard Madoff's ...