With increasingly sophisticated criminal activities have come equally impressive preventative measures, which goes some way to illustrate the extent by which authorities have cracked down on instances of financial fraud these past few years.
Updated on: September 30, 2011 / 1:48 PM The forged diaries included a Hitler-penned opera and a third volume of "Mein Kampf."
“It was greed, pure and simple,” he told a New York State parole panel in a video conference hearing late on last year. Barry Minkow was the wunderkind of Wall Street when he brought his company public. What follows is a collection of the biographies, timelines, trivia and other information about the professional and personal lives of some of the world’s most famous fraudsters.
Unfortunately, the guards had sold something that didn't belong to them, a classic, if simple, financial fraud. There was only one problem; Colonel Baker was a fictional creation and there was no inheritance. The FBI and IRS raided the Columbia/HCA offices in 1997, finding evidence of Medicare fraud. Fun fact: With the exception of New Orleans, Louisiana is still a swampy backwater. as well as other partner offers and accept our.
This incident was an inciting factor of the French Revolution that helped bring down the monarchy.
Well, think again. Putting this information to profitable use, Ponzi in just a few short months made the equivalent of over $4.5m in today’s money and lived an incredibly lavish lifestyle for a short while afterwards, buying a mansion in Lexington for himself and first-class ocean liner accommodation for his mother. Fun fact: In his heyday, Barry Minkow was a featured guest on Oprah Winfrey's TV show! Numerous executives were found guilty of various crimes from obstruction of justice, money laundering, and insider training. The new "emperor" was never recognized as such and was quickly deposed. "I have a bridge to sell you" may sound like a snide idiom, but the phrase has historical roots to the tricks pulled by George C. Parker and several others who tried selling the Brooklyn Bridge.
The "winner" was Julianus, who came up with a truly astronomical price: 250 gold pieces for every member of the army, which comes out to somewhere around $1 billion in today's money. From corporate scandals, to major forgeries, to individual pyramid schemes, keep reading to see the most notable, and expensive, fraud cases of all time.
Five US senators, including John McCain and John Glenn, intervened on behalf of Keating. In pre-revolution France, jewelers Boehmer and Bassenge tried to sell a diamond necklace to King Louis XVI for Marie Antoinette.
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