Todd Burkhalter promised big returns. His victims didn’t realize they were too good to be true.

Todd Burkhalter pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $380 million scam, likely the largest Ponzi scheme in Georgia history. Prosecutors recommended a 17.5-year prison sentence for the CEO after he ...

Financial advisor Todd Burkhalter pleaded guilty to running Georgia’s largest Ponzi scheme, defrauding 2,000 investors of $380M. Learn the red flags and how to protect yourself.

Although not nearly as wealthy as she once was,by no means is this former globe trotting, yacht owning Ruth Madoff scraping ...

(Original Caption) Charles Ponzi, the "financial wizard" of Boston who succeeded in amassing a fortune through his endless chain of sales of Foreign Exchange following the World War, later went to ...

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A federal court in the United States has sentenced a former crypto CEO to 20 years in prison for orchestrating a $200 million Bitcoin fraud and Ponzi scheme.

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 ...

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Finance and investment experts have attributed the recurring cases of phony investment schemes to three main issues of financial illiteracy, greed and lack of culture of due process. Against the ...

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 ...