Topic: Ponzie Scheme

Ruth Madoff: 'What's a Ponzi Scheme?'

60 Minutes

Ruth and Andrew Madoff, the wife and son of famed fraudster Bernie Madoff, in a round of interviews to promote a tell-all memoir, claimed they knew nothing of the Ponzi scheme he ran for decades until the patriarch confessed to them shortly before the truth became public.

By John Hudson

Sep 22, 2011

Full Tilt Poker Calls the Fed's Bluff

The site decries the fed's characterization of it as a 'global Ponzi scheme'

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