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 ...

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

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

The former president of the now-defunct Georgia-based First Liberty Building & Loan is facing a wire fraud charge after ...

The former president of a Newnan-based lending firm accused of raising more than $155 million from investors was arraigned ...

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

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

A Jacksonville real estate broker who is accused of orchestrating a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of nearly $6 ...

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] ...

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 ...

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 ...