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How SIPC Works and What Investors Should Know About It

The Securities Investor Protection Corp. will help get your cash and securities back if your broker-dealer fails. Here's a look at how SIPC works.

Kiplinger · Mar 7, 2024

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.

The Conversation · Dec 1, 2023

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 · Nov 13, 2023

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.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 20, 2023

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 · Jul 11, 2023

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 · Jul 1, 2023

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 · Jun 30, 2023

‘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 · May 25, 2023

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 · May 16, 2023

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 · Apr 7, 2023