The money must have been great while it lasted, but Joel Nathan Ward is facing a decade or more in a federal prison for stealing $10 million from investors in his Turlock-based foreign currency fund.
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We fell for a scam ad. And printed it. In our classifieds section we had an ad for help, versions of which we’re certain many others have seen come across their e-mails. Somehow we missed this one (”Accounts & Payment representative…”). It, and all the other versions are bogus.
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A longtime fixture to the Beaches restaurant scene is getting ready to return.
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Sent to prison Wednesday in connection with a fraudulent real estate investment scheme, a Homewood man was indicted Thursday on fresh charges of scamming investors.
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Litigation is mushrooming in the bankruptcy of Puig Inc., with creditors pitted against creditors for the assets of the failed Hialeah condo converter.
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Fort Collins investment adviser Gene Little pleaded not guilty today to a 42-count indictment accusing him of bilking millions of dollars from investors through a pyramid, or Ponzi, scheme.
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A judge has approved a settlement, apparently totaling $4.25 million, of a suit against Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. The suit had alleged that some of the firm’s lawyers helped Mobile Billboards of America and its affiliates sell investments in roving billboards that they should have realized were a scam.
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CONCORD — Nobel Trust Co., an investment firm that was seized by the state last month for allegedly hiding $15 million in losses, will be liquidated by the state banking commission. … - By DAVID BROOKS Telegraph Staff
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Alicia Eimicke pleaded guilty yesterday to all 35 felony counts of grand larceny and related charges in the theft of $9.2 million from investors in her failed Yonkers family business, but she may serve no jail time and repay less than a third of what she stole.
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