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...complaint says Stanford Bank has more than 30,000 clients in 131 countries and $7.2 billion in assets. It says the company's larger group, Stanford Financial Group, is a privately held entity with $50 billion "under advisement...
...CFTC filed a complaint against Mark S. Trimble of Edmond, Okla., and his company, Phidippides Capital Management, for running a private hedge fund alleged to be a $30 million Ponzi. Before that, Obie and his enforcement team filed an enforcement action against Charles E. Hays and his Crossfire Trading of Rosemount, Minn., charging fraud and misappropriation in connection with a $25 million Ponzi that affected 75 people...
...complaint says Stanford perpetrated a "massive fraud based on false promises and fabricated historical return data to prey on investors." The alleged fraud centers on an $8 billion certificate-of-deposit (CD) program. (Read about Stanford's love of cricket...
...Oklahoma case, the CFTC's complaint alleges that, beginning in 2005, Phidippides Capital operated a $34 million hedge fund with approximately 60 investors. Since at least October 2007, the CFTC says, Trimble allegedly issued "false account statements, failed to disclose the fund's actual multimillion trading losses and operated the fund as a Ponzi scheme...
...Minnesota case, the CFTC complaint charges Hays with misappropriating investor funds to purchase a $4 million yacht, among other things. Hays could not be located for comment. "Hays ran his Ponzi scheme from his yacht but was grounded when the tide turned as federal authorities exposed this egregious fraud," said Obie in a prepared statement. When asked why the Ponzi surge is so great now, Obie said, "What you're seeing is the collapse of Ponzi funds in hard economic times - but I'm afraid as times get tougher, we're going to see new fraud develop, especially foreign-currency...