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Santos, now booted from the House, got elected as a master of duplicity -- here's how it worked

U.S. Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, was expelled on Dec. 1, 2023 from Congress for doing what most people think all politicians do all the time: lying.

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Sins of the father: Could Joe Bankman go to jail for helping his son run FTX?

“They were living high on the hog while advising a bunch of twentysomethings who had no idea what they were doing,” said a a white-collar defense specialist.

Fortune

How Sam Bankman-Fried stacks up against Bernie Madoff and some of history’s biggest financial fraudsters

Where do the alleged crimes of Sam Bankman-Fried stack up against history's biggest fraudsters?

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Prosecutors have damning evidence of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fraud: Why isn’t he pleading guilty?

A white-collar defense attorney described the upcoming FTX trial as a “once in a decade” fraud case.

Fortune

A timeline of Sam Bankman-Fried, who could go down as one of history’s most notorious fraudsters

Sam Bankman-Fried, 31, is facing fraud and conspiracy charges linked to FTX, which was once valued at $32 billion.

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Capturing ‘The Monster of Wall Street’ with Canon Cameras

Using in-camera transitions, we seamlessly married present day interviews with recreated sequences

TV Tech

Lynch: The majors should make a statement on golf’s cash arms race — pay players nothing!

The PGA Tour is delivering financial windfalls not seen since Bernie Madoff was the toast of Wall Street.

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Scam science: How to outsmart the con

Authors of "Nobody's Fool" say "There's an unending arms race of people coming up with new ways to try to scam us"

Salon

Bobbly Bonilla day, explained: Here’s why MLB fans celebrate the former All-Star every July 1

Bobby Bonilla. Baseball's master of finesse.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Thames Water with a dash of Ponzi scheme

Letters: Louis Berk thinks Bernie Madoff couldn’t have pulled off a better deception, Alan Gray is glad to hear of the water company’s ‘strong liquidity position’, and John Powell thinks Dŵr Cymru has the right idea

The Guardian - UK

‘Corporate psychopaths’ lead businesses to financial ruin, new research warns. Here are 13 telltale signs

Psychopaths are generally charming and intelligent at first blush, and successful psychopaths all the more so. Because of this, they’re able to work “relatively undetected in corporate society,” one expert contends.

Fortune

Sean Grusd, portrayed as a junior Bernie Madoff, could face 6 years for $23 million Chicago scam

He lived the high life in the West Loop but now has pleaded guilty to fraud. Investor John Stafford III and real estate exec Patrick Buck are among those who say they were victims of his schemes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Junior Bernie Madoff? Businessmen who say they were bilked of tens of millions say Sean Grusd was just as ‘brazen’

He’s accused of conning prominent Chicago businessmen including John Stafford III and Patrick Buck into investing millions — but spending the money on fancy cars, real estate and vacations.

Chicago Sun-Times

Alex Murdaugh found guilty of murdering wife, son in June 2021

WALTERBORO, S.C. — Alex Murdaugh, the fourth-generation heir to a powerful South Carolina legal, law enforcement and political family, was found guilty Thursday of murdering his wife and son in a case that brought the glare of national and international media attention to a long-secluded but corrupt corner of the…

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Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has another big problem: He won't shut up

Most white-collar defendants lay low, but the ex-CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX has been talking, tweeting, and sending email newsletters. Those comments could come back to hurt him.

Reason

What the Madoff Series Left Out

A Netflix documentary series blames the SEC for missing the Ponzi scheme and then calls for giving the SEC more power.

The Conversation

Scammed: why the rich, famous and experts get duped more often than you think

The typical reaction to learning about how people have lost money to a con artist is “how could anyone be so gullible?” But it’s the wrong question. Fraudsters fool even the most clever and admired experts by playing on their psychological vulnerabilities.

Los Angeles Times

Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents used their house to bail him out. But they rent the land from Stanford

Shortly before Christmas, FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried, indicted on federal charges of fraud and money laundering, was released on a $250 million bail bond that was secured by his parents’ Palo Alto-area home.

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The Guardian - UK

Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street review – grubby and jaw-dropping from start to finish

This pacy Netflix docu-series plays like a Hollywood thriller, with its trail of grimly fascinating testimonies and astonishing curveballs about the ‘financial serial killer’

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street’ deftly details the swindler’s $64 billion Ponzi scheme

Netflix doc crunches the numbers with help from experts, associates and a lookalike actor.

The Independent UK

‘He destroyed the lives of many’: How a true crime filmmaker came to view Bernie Madoff as a ‘financial serial killer’

The director tells Clémence Michallon about his new Netflix documentary ‘Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street’, the collapse of FTX, and how history seemingly repeats itself

The Independent UK

New this week: 'The Pale Blue Eye,' Iggy Pop and 'The Menu'

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from veteran Iggy Pop and rising star Brandon Ratcliff, Lifetime concludes its coverage on R. Kelly’s victims with a two-night special, and Christian Bale stars as a detective in an 1830 whodunit alongside a young Edgar Allen Poe

Axios

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong talks FTX, crypto regulation and DeFi

The crypto industry suffered a big black eye, but it isn't going anywhere, Armstrong says.

Fortune

Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of FTX, to land in the U.S. tonight

The easiest way to convict Sam Bankman-Fried for the FTX fraud is to gain the cooperation of Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda and Bankman-Fried's former girlfriend.

Fortune

An FBI ace on how to build an airtight case against SBF

Gregory Coleman ran the criminal investigation against Jordan Belfort, and helped seize assets that went back to Bernie Madoff victims.

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