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Elon Musk has been on a mission to reduce government waste through the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). As of April 18, the agency estimates that it has saved $155 billion in total. And ...

The phrase Ponzi scheme dates back well before Bernie Madoff defrauded investors out of $65 billion. Between 1882 and 1949, Charles Ponzi, an Italian immigrant, found a loophole in currency exchanges.

"At current interest and tax rates, it is far cheaper to borrow against the value of one's shares than to sell them and pay taxes on the gains." "Numbers don't lie." That is-until they do. Numbers can ...

A Randolph couple pleaded guilty in federal court to running a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded dozens of victims, some of whom had invested their life savings in the scam, according ...

The Frost family used nearly $1.4 million in campaign contributions, much of it allegedly swindled from investors, to build political clout in Georgia and across the nation over the past two decades, ...

Bernie Madoff’s $68b Ponzi drove JPMC to the edge of a criminal indictment. So why did it keep working with Jeffrey Epstein?

A Randolph man who pleaded guilty this summer to orchestrating a catastrophic Ponzi scheme was sentenced to serve five years in prison for defrauding individuals and families of their entire life ...

Demonstrators gather outside of the Edward A. Garmatz United States District Courthouse in Baltimore, on Friday, March 14, 2025, before a hearing regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's ...