Prosecutors say Edwin Brant Frost IV defrauded at hundreds of investors, including many grassroots Republicans, of at least ...

NEWNAN, Ga. - The former president of a defunct Newnan lending company was arraigned Thursday on federal wire fraud charges ...

Police are examining allegations that the Reform UK MP's Conservative leadership campaign was unlawfully funded by a US-based ...

A prominent Georgia Republican accused of running a $156 million Ponzi scheme has been charged by federal prosecutors with ...

A real estate–focused social media influencer, or “finfluencer,” who promised his followers huge profits and financial ...

The former president of First Liberty Building and Loan is accused of wire fraud and running a $140 million Ponzi scheme.

The last of eight defendants sentenced for committing the biggest Ponzi scheme in California history has received a 5½ year ...

A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often promise to invest money and generate high returns with little ...

As readers of this Blog know, affinity fraud and Ponzi schemes often intersect because each reinforces the weaknesses of the other, creating a powerful and deceptive form of financial exploitation.[1] ...

Charles Ponzi, pictured in Boston in July 1920 with a gold-handled cane and a diamond stickpin, lured investors by claiming he found a way to make huge profits buying international postal reply ...

Bernard Madoff seemed the height of respectability in 2008, but he was secretly scamming his investors. Among them was the ...

The con artist synonymous for scams and swindles was once acclaimed for his financial brilliance before his bubble burst. Charles Ponzi of Boston was an Italian-born American who duped investors in ...