Orchestrators of Ponzi schemes have increasingly turned to artificial intelligence tools to make their scams appear more ...
Attorneys James D. Gassenheimer and Isaac M. Marcushamer offer the telltale signs of a Ponzi scheme knowing another wave of frauds may be just around the corner. In late 2008 and 2009, the United ...
Todd Burkhalter promised big returns. His victims didn’t realize they were too good to be true.
Everything is fine until the scheme runs out of new investors and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. We still hear about Ponzi schemes, or pyramid schemes, as they are more frequently ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. Todd Burkhalter, the CEO of the Georgia-based financial advisory group Drive ...
The SEC reveals how Nigerians were swindled out of ₦316 billion by Ponzi schemes, and names the major players behind the country’s most damaging scams. If you stand in the middle of the every-busy ...
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a years-long Ponzi scheme that defrauded international investors out of more than $94 million, prosecutors said. Andrew Hamilton Jacobus, a 64 ...
A New Jersey scam artist whose federal prison sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021 is headed back to jail for running a new Ponzi scheme after he was freed. Eliyahi Weinstein, 51, ...
Thousands of clients trusted Todd Burkhalter to invest their money in high-yielding real estate loans. In reality, Burkhalter was running a massive Ponzi scheme while splurging on motorcoaches and ...