Charles Ponzi

Part I : The Introduction, The Rulers, The conspiracy The illuminati is a secret religion found in May 1st, 1776 that follows the conspiracy theory thus meaning they are a group of secretive people that operate behind the scenes to govern the entire world in secret. In a developed context, the Illuminati are extremely powerful people that work in the financial, industrial and media world based in Western Europe and North America and some of their most important names are Rothschild,…

biggest white-collar crime in our era. A white-collar crime is not violent and usually deals with financial motivated situations. In this situation, ENRON officials were completely unethical. One topic that we covered during Case Study number 4 was the “Ponzi scheme” that included Bernie Madoff. This incident can be related to the ENRON scandal because ENRON used the same scheme. Just like Bernie Madoff, ENRON misrepresented earning reports to get people to invest. The money that was invested…

Greetings everyone! Today, I’ll tell you more about the famous billionaire Donald J. Trump! I’ll be talking about these subjects:  Donald Trump’s private life  Donald Trump’s business career  Donald Trump’s political career Donald Trump’s early life: Donald John Trump was born on June 14th, 1946, making him 69 years old. He was born as the fourth of five children to Fred Trump, an American citizen of German descent, and Anne nee MacLeod, a Scottish woman. Donald Trump was born and raised in…

George Eastman, J.P. Morgan, John Rockefeller, and Andrew Carnegie were captains of industry. Eastman, Morgan, Rockefeller, and Carnegie were all captains of industry because they all gave back and donated money, each of these four men donated money or items to business, charities, and founded their own schools or business. George Eastman was a very generous man and gave money to schools, businesses, and even gave away scholarships/internships to M.I.T which stands for Massachusetts Institute of…

believe that he had help in creating and sustaining his Ponzi scheme. I do believe that this represents a conflict of interest. I believe that Bernard Madoff did not work alone. It is hard for me to image one individual working alone to create such the scheme. I believe that Bernard Madoff worked with someone, maybe his wife, to keep the money and paperwork shady. This also adds to my belief that he had help in creating and sustaining his Ponzi scheme. Scheming is not easy. It take…

Stratton Oakmont, Inc. was a Long Island, New York based "over-the-counter” brokerage company founded by Jordan Belfort. Stratton Oakmont is one of the well known and most controversial stock scandal of all times. Jordan Belfort also known as “wolf of wall street” was a stockbroker who ended up doing a big stock manipulation. He looted his clients by underwriting an initial public offer(IPO) for a company that doesn’t exist then they used pump and dump scheme to sell its self-owned stocks by…

TWhy do you think that people would steal art? To get money, to help a friend, to just get attention? Everyone has there reasons that we might never know. That is one of the challenges authorities have, trying to figure out why people steal the ear that they steal. Another major challenge is having to locate the art and the people who stole it. The masterpiece Rembrandt's Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee was stolen. It had a five million dollar reward for whoever could find it. At the…

After Queen Elizabeth died, James I rose to become king of England on July 25, 1903. He was a strong supporter of Shakespeare’s company and called them to perform for the court thirteen or more times a year. On account of King James’s robust advocacy of the company, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men changed the company’s name to The King’s Men (Chrisp and Teague 48). The King’s Men performed at the Blackfriars Theatre in winter and at the Globe Theatre in summer (Boyce 351). The main reason for this…

Austin Sweeting Mrs. Jones Sociology 8:00 21 March 2016 Bernie Madoff's $50 Billion Ponzi Scheme: White Collar Crime After overlooking several different types of crimes I decided to look into the damaging effects of what white collar crimes can cause. Thereafter I then decided to choose one of the most infamous white collar crimes “Bernie Madoff’. The man who almost got away with billions of dollars of innocent investors. We will dive into the shocking story of Bernie Madoff the man who…

give rise to the leak of my financial information. In addition, I will make sure to shred all my financial related documents. I will also stop using debit card at a gas station. 5. Do some research on Bernie Madoff. What was his punishment for the Ponzi scheme? How much money did investors lose? How was Madoff’s family…