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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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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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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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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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Neil Cole of Iconix Brand Group Gets Round-Trip Fraud Conviction Overturned on Appeal in 2025

Neil Cole, the founder and longtime chief executive of Iconix Brand Group Inc., a Nasdaq-listed fashion brand licensing company that managed more than 35 consumer brands including Joe Boxer, Danskin, ...
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Newton Jones of Boilermakers Hired His Wife for a No-Show and Billed the Union for Date Nights

Newton B. Jones, 72, led the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Forgers, and Helpers from 2003 until his ouster in June 2023, following his own executive council’s ...
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Pappy & Harriets: Inside the Legal Battle for a High-Desert Music Icon

Tucked away in the high desert of Southern California, Pappy & Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace is more than just a bar and grill – it’s a cultural institution. Founded in 1982 by Claude “Pappy” Allen and ...