Tag archive for ‘Allen Stanford’

• Madoff: “Screw the Victims”

  29 June 10 • 1 comment

  

  Inside Edition: “It’s been reported that Madoff said, ‘Screw the victims.’ What’s your response?”

  Answer in chorus: “He already did.”

  Read more by clicking on the title above.

• Uma Thurman, Ponzi Schemes and Justice

  27 May 10 • 2 comments

  Just when it looked like Ponzi schemes had run their course—for the time being—we learned of another. The Daily Beast reported:

  Sorry, former President Clinton: It’s not that Ken Starr. A financial adviser with the same name as Clinton’s former nemesis was arrested on Thursday for allegedly perpetrating a $30 million fraud and Ponzi scheme. Clients to Ken Starr, the chairman and CEO of Starr & Company, include Annie Leibovitz, Uma Thurman, Martin Scorsese, Wesley Snipes, and Henry Kissinger. Authorities also arrested Andy Stein, the former Manhattan borough president and New York City Council president, for lying to officials conducting the probe.

• Wealth Management: How Can We Trust Anyone When…

  11 March 10 • Comments Off

  

  I plan to examine three questions. How can we regain confidence when:

  Havoc is more profitable than fixing problems?
  Employees don’t trust the companies they represent?
  Nobody has the global power to regulate financial institutions?

• Fraud—Spoils of Democrats and Republicans

  24 February 10 • Comments Off

  Here’s what I don’t get. Why is it necessary to sue these groups? Stanford’s name is toxic. I would think Democrats and Republicans alike would run from any association with him and return funds—quietly, under the radar, without spending taxpayer money through a back-and-forth lawsuit.

• Part II: The Ponzi Wives Poll

  4 June 09 • 1 comment

  

  Last week Acrimoney posted an article entitled, Part I: The Ponzi Wives Poll. We presented the following case. A woman left her husband ten years ago. She waited until 2007 to sue for divorce. As their battle played out in court, a second front emerged. In 2009 the SEC charged the husband with financial fraud.

• Should the SEC Tweet?

  12 May 09 • Comments Off

  

  If anything, FINRA and the SEC are compounding a problem. They’re regulating unevenly. The result is that bad guys have a place to hide—or to reinvent themselves.

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