West Virginia's Raleigh County is a largely rural region nestled in the coal mining country of the Appalachian Mountains, celebrated for its natural beauty and rugged snowy terrain. However, the ...

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

A Carmel man working in finance faces federal charges on accusations that he is connected to a $200-million-plus Ponzi scheme involving water vending machines, according to the Indianapolis Business ...

A former Greenville car dealer and gospel singer pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud Wednesday for running a Ponzi scheme that resulted in more than 60 investors suffering net losses in excess ...

A Stuart man was ordered Feb. 4 to pay more than $1.1 million for being the "master trader" of a fraudulent $100 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, court records show. Joshua Nicholas, 30, was ...

A Northern California man pleaded guilty Thursday to a Ponzi-like fraud scheme, following his arrest in 2020 where he tried to escape the FBI using a submarine in Shasta Lake, officials said. Matthew ...

A police mug shot of Italian-born American swindler Charles Ponzi (1882 - 1949) after his arrest for forgery under the name of Charles Bianchi, Montreal, Canada, 1909. Ponzi later served 14 years in ...

A broker who was previously banned from the industry is facing 22 criminal counts in connection with an alleged Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of more than $1.2 million.

Elon Musk has been on a mission to reduce government waste through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As of April 18, the agency estimates that it has saved $155 billion in total. And ...

Bernie Madoff, the Wall Street financier turned Ponzi scheme kingpin, has died, The Associated Press reported Wednesday. He was 82. Madoff apparently died of natural causes in federal prison, ...