ponzi scheme

Bernie Madoff's wife and son speak publically for first time about the Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands, and their lives since Madoff's arrest and imprisonment

Harry Markopolos describes himself as a "50 billion dollar failure." Why? Because he couldn't get anyone to listen when he figured out Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, eight years before Madoff's arrest.

Full Tilt Poker has even more problems on their hands, as federal prosecutors are claiming that the internet poker company was “not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme.”

Bernie Madoff's obsession with the Harvard Business School continues with the accused swindler writing the FOX Business Network last week to once again protest our coverage of the school's denial of his claim that it is "building an entrepreneur course" based on his pre-Ponzi scheme days as a trader on Wall Street .

Federal regulators have won a court order against a hedge fund manager they accuse of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars from investors in his funds to the $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme run by convicted Minnesota businessman Tom Petters.

Dec. 13 -- Christopher Lovell of Lovell, Stewart and Halebian LLP, discusses the impact of Mark Madoff's suicide on pending lawsuits involving the Ponzi scheme that led to Bernard's Madoff's arrest.

Dec. 11, 2008: Bernard Madoff is arrested after telling senior employees that his investment company was "basically, a giant Ponzi scheme," and he had "absolutely nothing." Media reports later identified the employees as his sons, Mark and Andrew.

Sonja Kohn is accused of masterminding a 23-year conspiracy that helped finance the Ponzi scheme.

In order to help the F.B.I., Ty Schlobohm had to watch the swindling of investors as a Ponzi scheme progressed.

Giuseppe Viola, the man accused of bilking North Beach residents of some $17 million in an elaborate Ponzi scheme, spent 20 years as a fugitive.