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Evarist Amah Lost 97% of His Congregation’s Money and Told Them It Was Growing

Amah raised about $700,000 from nine fellow members of the Grail Movement, promising part of the profits would support their ...
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Mayur Baviskar Stopped Payment on Money He Actually Had to Trade $1.4M He Didn’t

Over five years Baviskar pushed $377,200 of unfunded deposits into brokerage accounts at nine firms, traded more than $1.4M ...
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Archil Cheishvili Paid Himself $350K a Year to Run GenesisAI, Which Had No Product

Cheishvili raised $5.3M from over 4,000 retail investors for an AI marketplace, forecast $250M in 2024 revenue, and delivered ...
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Dean Graziosi Made $10M While 95% of His Seminar Attendees Lost Money

Graziosi was paid a percentage of every dollar his seminars persuaded people to spend, which came to roughly $10 million. The ...
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Stephen Buyer Served 22 Months for Insider Trading and the SEC Just Let It Go

The former Indiana congressman learned about the T-Mobile Sprint merger at a golf outing, bought $568,000 of Sprint stock, ...
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Duane Slade of 1859 Operating Ran an Oil Lease Offering After a $166M Ponzi Conviction

The substance of the SEC’s application is a catalogue of non-compliance. The Commission issued subpoenas to the corporate respondents and several individuals in April 2024, and to Duane Slade in July ...
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Albert and Elie Fouerti of Polished.com Charged $290K in Personal Expenses to the Company

Ibrahim “Albert” Fouerti, 46, and Elie Fouerti, 47, brothers from Brooklyn, New York, built the online appliance retailer Appliances Connection and sold it in June 2021 to Polished.com Inc., the New ...