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Over 150 Ponzi Schemes Collapsed in 2009, Up Nearly 300% from Last Year

By Securities Docket on December 28, 2009, 5:30 pm

Charles Ponzi

More than 150 Ponzi schemes collapsed in 2009, nearly four times as many as the 40 that collapsed in 2008. The AP reports that according to its review of criminal cases at all U.S. attorneys’ offices and the FBI, as well as criminal and civil actions taken by state prosecutors and regulators at both the federal and state levels, tens of thousands of investors lost more than $16.5 billion to Ponzi schemes in 2009.

Lanny Breuer, assistant AG for the DOJ’s criminal division, explained that the “financial meltdown has resulted in the exposure of numerous fraudulent schemes that otherwise might have gone undetected for a longer period of time.”

More broadly, the AP’s research showed that in 2009, the FBI opened more than 2,100 securities fraud investigations, up from 1,750 in 2008.  At the SEC, there were 82 percent more restraining orders against Ponzi schemes and other securities fraud cases this year than in 2008, and it opened about 6 percent more investigations.

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