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Charles Ponzi (/ˈpɒnzi/, Italian: [ˈpontsi]; born
Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi;
March 3, 1882 –
January 18, 1949) was an
Italian charlatan...
- 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...
- This is a list of
Ponzi schemes,
fraudulent investment operations that pay out
returns to
investors from
money paid in by
subsequent investors rather...
- МММ was a
Russian company that
perpetrated one of the world's
largest Ponzi schemes of all time, in the 1990s. By
different estimates from 5 to 10 million...
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criminal and
financier who was the
admitted mastermind of the
largest known Ponzi scheme in history,
worth an
estimated $65 billion. He was at one time chairman...
- have
described bitcoin as a
potential Ponzi scheme.
Legal scholar Eric
Posner disagrees, however, as "a real
Ponzi scheme takes fraud; bitcoin, by contrast...
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Maurizio Ponzi (born 8 May 1939) is an
Italian film director,
screenwriter and
cinema critic. Born in Rome, he
wrote cinema reviews in
several Italian...
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alongside his
brother the
financial crimes of his father,
Bernie Madoff,
whose Ponzi scheme has been
widely described as the most
successful in history. Andrew...
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Nancy Ponzi (born 19
August 1941) is an
American vineyard owner and winemaker. She is a
pioneer of the
Oregon wine
industry and the
Oregon brewing industry...
- who
received a 20-year
prison sentence for
orchestrating a $930
million Ponzi scheme.
According to interviews, he
allegedly engaged in
rampant violations...
