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In December 1992, MMM-Invest was created as a voucher investment fund, a type of entity created to collect privatization vouchers. [8] It was renamed Russ-Invest in May 1995, to distance it from the MMM scheme. [8] The MMM Ponzi scheme was launched in February 1994, [9] promising annual returns of up to 3000 %. [10]
On January 21, 2008, European stock markets suffered heavy losses of about 6%. The sharp fall, which was followed by an emergency cut in the federal funds rate by the United States Federal Reserve on the following Tuesday (US markets were closed on the Monday for Martin Luther King Jr Day), came as Société Générale tried to close out ...
MMM Global. MMM Global (also known as МММ-2011 / МММ-2012) is a Ponzi scheme launched in 2011 by Sergei Mavrodi, with subsidiaries in up to 110 countries. [citation needed] MMM Global is a new avatar of the Russian company MMM, also created by Mavrodi and which operated from 1989 to 2004. The difference between the two is that MMM Global ...
The lawsuit against Schwab is filed on behalf of a 92-year-old retired nurse who alleges Schwab bankers repeatedly allowed wire transfers for gold purchases she made at the direction of overseas ...
3 Common Penny Stock Scams. Pump and Dump Scams: Jordan Belfort, a.k.a “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is one of the most infamous players on Wall Street. His fraudulent tactics are a great example ...
In 2020, Facebook, Inc. spent $19.7 million on lobbying, hiring 79 lobbyists. In 2019, it had spent $16.7 million on lobbying and had a team of 71 lobbyists, up from $12.6 million and 51 lobbyists in 2018. [124] Facebook was the largest spender of lobbying money among the Big Tech companies in 2020. [125]
Accounting scandals are business scandals which arise from intentional manipulation of financial statements with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations or governments. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating revenues, understating expenses, overstating ...
On September 3, 2003, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced the issuance of a complaint against New Jersey hedge fund company Canary Capital Partners LLC, charging that they had engaged in "late trading" in collusion with Bank of America 's Nations Funds. Bank of America is charged with permitting Canary to purchase mutual fund ...