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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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January 29, 2015. ( 2015-01-29) N/A. In case 1, Rodney Hailey scams millions from major corporations with a fake green energy business, but his collection of luxury cars draw attention from the authorities. In case 2, cat burglar Blane David Nordahl steals antique Sterling silver from rich neighborhoods.
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 ...