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# Ponzi Scheme

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# US
Bernie Madoff, convicted of running world's biggest-ever Ponzi scheme, dies in prison
He was serving a 150-year sentence.
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Apr 14th 2021, 3:01 PM
# Cosmetics
Gardaí alerted to illegal pyramid schemes operating on social media
Officers believe there has been an increase in this type of activity since the start of lockdown measures imposed in March.
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Oct 20th 2020, 6:30 AM
# Ponzi Scheme
Bernie Madoff - serving 150-year jail term for fraud - asks for release on compassionate grounds
The 81-year-old fraudster says he has terminal kidney failure and less than 18 months to live.
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Feb 6th 2020, 7:02 AM
# Thema international fund
Dublin based investment fund agrees to pay $687 million to victims of fraudster Bernie Madoff
Madoff’s customers have now recovered over 70% of the money they lost when his scheme collapsed.
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Sep 7th 2017, 4:30 PM
# Bernie Madoff
The curious case of the most famous Ponzi scheme ever, a banking giant and an Irish court
An investment fund was attempting to claim damages relating to the Bernie Madoff scandal, the largest Ponzi scheme in US history, through Irish courts.
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Feb 25th 2016, 7:30 PM
# Courts
Clerys operators used "ponzi scheme" to pay concession holders, court told
Details of how businessmen and women working within Clery’s were paid were revealed in court today.
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Dec 11th 2015, 5:51 PM
# Boom to Bust
Who is Breifne O'Brien? Corkman, charlatan, Celtic Tiger conman...
Find out more about the man who encapsulated the Celtic Tiger with his fall from grace.
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Oct 8th 2014, 8:00 PM
# Peter Paid-off
Brother of Bernie Madoff gets 10 years for role in Ponzi scheme
Peter Madoff is jailed after a plea bargain with prosecutors, for helping to falsify his brother’s corporate accounts.
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Dec 21st 2012, 9:36 AM
# Fraud
Billionaire Stanford given 110-year jail term over $7bn fraud
On the plus side, that’s enough time for the cricket-loving Texan to watch 8,035 test matches.
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Jun 15th 2012, 12:33 PM
# Shenanigans
Jury finds Stanford guilty of fraud
Texas financier R. Allen Stanford has been found guilty of operating a ponzi scheme that defrauded nearly 30,000 people of investments totaling $7 billion.
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Mar 7th 2012, 11:07 AM
Voices
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the world.
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Dec 4th 2011, 11:00 AM
# Madoff
Bernie Madoff's wife says couple attempted suicide over ponzi fraud fallout
In her first television interview, Ruth Madoff says that she was “glad” the couple woke up after taking pills they thought would kill them.
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Oct 27th 2011, 11:41 AM
# Anglo
Anglo may have known it faced bankruptcy from 2004, says High Court chief
The Master of the High Court has suggested that Anglo was aware of the solvency issues it faced for several years before the economic collapse.
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May 22nd 2011, 11:35 AM
# Madoff
Bernard Madoff insists he is not a sociopath
The disgraced financier has denied he is a sociopath – and says that some victims of his pyramid scheme should carry much of the blame.
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Feb 28th 2011, 2:26 PM