Latest News About Ponzi Scheme

Updated 2026-05-10 20:01

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October 2024 Ponzi Scheme Roundup | ABI

Nayeem Choudhury, 28, of Texas, was sentenced to 5 years and 3 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $6.1 million in connection with a scheme he ran through Dream Venture Capital Group LLC while a resident of North Carolina. Choudhury promised monthly returns as high as 25% from trading and defrauded at least 88 victims. Choudhury lost over $5 million in investor funds and used other funds for extravagant purchases.

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Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical company CEO who caused a public uproar after drastically raising the price of a life-saving prescription drug, was arrested on Thursday. Federal prosecutors accuse Shkreli of running a Ponzi-like scheme to pay off investors at his former hedge fund. Anthony Mason reports. Stocks surged after the Labor Department announced that the U.S. economy added 211,000 jobs in November. Also, the trustee of Bernie Madoff's firm began distributing more money to people...

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September 2025 Ponzi Scheme Roundup

Arsalan Rawjani, 40, of Texas, and his investment firm, Trade with Ayasa LLC, were charged by the SEC on allegations that they were running a $18 million Ponzi scheme. He promised returns of 3% to 5% per month from options trading. The SEC alleges that only about $1 million of the $18 million investment was ever actually traded and that Rawjani withdrew about $4.5 million for him and his family. … Jugal Kishore, 57, was arrested on Wednesday in connection with an alleged scheme run through...

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