Word: trusted
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...Harold McGee, who writes regularly on the science of cooking for The New York Times, and, along with physicist Davide Cassi, also participated in the panel. "If it were called something else, it wouldn't make you think there's something there you don't know or can't trust. But the moment you start talking about molecules, about these particles that you can't see, people begin to get concerned...
...charges that Theodule used the funds to play the market. In total, he lost 97% of all investor funds - including $18 million last year alone. In addition, the SEC says, Theodule took $3.8 million for himself and his family. So much for trust. Theodule's lawyer, Charles Pickett Jr., did not comment on the case...
Like any good affinity fraud, Theodule allegedly tapped into the trust of his people - in this case, Haitian immigrants - and used unregistered investment clubs that fly under the SEC radar to make his scam work. The funds were said to be used for new Haitian-American business ventures in the U.S., Haiti and Sierra Leone. He even used the gambit of a fake investment-club regulatory agency he called Smart Investment Management Services LLC to add a measure of security and to tout independent verification. (See the top 10 scandals...
...third-party liquidators step in. Creditors don't want to see the stores themselves running clearance. Why trust the executives who put a company in bankruptcy to manage a sale that covers their losses? Plus, soon-to-be unemployed managers are busy fishing for other jobs. They don't have a real stake in the sale. (Read "Q&A with Best Buy CEO Brad Anderson...
...investment bank Lehman Brothers as well as the won's decline. Minerva had become such a sensation during the global financial meltdown that Korea's Minister of Strategy and Finance, Kang Man Soo, weighed in, saying he hoped to furnish the blogger with more economic facts so he would trust the government. (See 10 things to do in Seoul...