Ponzi
Example Sentences
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Until recently, Vietnam's crypto scene was a wild west, with highly speculative ventures and outright Ponzi schemes flourishing alongside startups offering legitimate products.
From Barron's
Last September, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit against Lopez and his partners, accusing them of running a Ponzi scheme, misleading investors and misappropriating $16.1 million.
The director of bank supervision at the Iranian central bank last year called Ayandeh “a Ponzi scheme.”
“He’s not running a mill creating fake paintings or running a Ponzi scheme,” Wynne says.
Would it have been another Allen Stanford, the now-convicted fraudster who operated a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme?
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.