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  2. Nevin Shapiro - Wikipedia

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    Born. ( 1969-04-13) April 13, 1969 (age 55) Brooklyn, New York City, U.S. Known for. Convicted white collar criminal of a Ponzi scheme. Nevin Karey Shapiro (born April 13, 1969) is a convicted felon who received a 20-year prison sentence for orchestrating a $930 million Ponzi scheme. According to interviews, he allegedly engaged in rampant ...

  3. 2011 University of Miami athletics scandal - Wikipedia

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    Rapper Uncle Luke of 2 Live Crew in May 2017 Nevin Shapiro (left) in August 2020. The University of Miami and its football team were the subject of a number of past scandals. In May 1994, The Miami Herald reported that 2 Live Crew member Uncle Luke and several NFL players had offered a pay-to-play scheme from 1986 through 1992, giving cash rewards to University Miami players for acts such as ...

  4. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    1860s. Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1][ 2] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the "Spitzedersche Privatbank" in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.

  5. US prosecutors charge prominent short-seller with fraud - AOL

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    Federal prosecutors in California on Friday charged prominent investor Andrew Left with multiple counts of securities fraud involving “a long-running market manipulation scheme” yielding at ...

  6. Scrapped fundraisers and watching from the treadmill. How ...

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    Shapiro scrapped three weekend fundraisers in the seaside communities on the coast of Long Island, New York, and his press secretary, Manuel Bonder, offered little explanation as to why.

  7. The It List: 'Fruitcake Fraud' doc tells a true crime story ...

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  8. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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    The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, starting in 1994. The incidents involved a man calling a restaurant or grocery store, claiming to be a police officer, and then convincing managers to conduct strip searches of ...

  9. Jury orders NFL to pay nearly $4.8 billion in 'Sunday Ticket ...

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    A jury in U.S. District Court ordered the NFL to pay nearly $4.8 billion in damages Thursday after ruling that the league violated antitrust laws in distributing out-of-market Sunday afternoon ...