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Bertram Earl Jones (born June 24, 1942) is a Canadian unlicensed investment adviser who pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme that CBC News has reported cost his victims "a conservative estimate of about $ 51.3 million taken between 1982 and 2009". [1] After pleading guilty to two charges of fraud in 2010, he was sentenced to 11 years in ...
Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure ...
The Beardstown Ladies is a group of 16 women in their 70s who formed an investment club, formally known as the Beardstown Business and Professional Women's Investment Club, in Beardstown, Illinois, in 1983 in a church basement. The club got media attention after it authored a book, published in 1995, titled The Beardstown Ladies' Common-Sense ...
All investments carry some degree of risk, but there's a distinct line between a risky investment and a downright scam. Unfortunately, scams are prevalent. According to data from the Federal Trade...
March 8, 2024 at 1:51 PM. NEWARK−A Belmar man who authorities say ran a scam he called an "investment club" for more than 35 years, taking some $5 million from 30 investors, many of them elderly ...
The Inflation Reduction Act is a nearly 2-year-old law — dubbed by President Joe Biden's administration as the largest investment ever in clean energy and climate action.
On June 16, 2009, Judge Burton Lifland approved the settlement between Picard and Banco Santander SA's Optimal Investment Services. The Optimal SUS fund, one of Madoff's largest feeder funds, agreed to pay $235 million, about 85% of the $285 million that the Geneva-based hedge fund group redeemed in the 90 days before Madoff was arrested. As of ...
Back to the Barrooms is the thirty-first studio album by American country music singer Merle Haggard, released in October 1980. He is backed by Norm Hamlet and Don Markham of The Strangers . Background [ edit ]