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Final tally: Officials seek $24 million more from Dowdell's minions
Published on Mar 4th, 2011
1 comments With the prosecution winding down its decade-long work on the Terry Dowdell Ponzi scheme– one of the world's largest until Bernie Madoff took such crimes to new depths– prosecutors and...
Ponzi sentencing: Schemer John Donnelly gets 7 1/2 years
Published on Nov 6th, 2009
7 comments Ponzi-schemer John M. Donnelly will serve seven and a half years for running a Ponzi scheme. FILE FAMILY PHOTO John M. Donnelly walked out of federal court Friday morning a free man–- but not...
Ponzi plea: Donnelly guilty, home until sentencing
Published on May 11th, 2009
1 comments Ponzi-schemer John M. Donnelly pled guilty May 11. FILE FAMILY PHOTO The jig is up for John M. Donnelly. On May 11, exactly two months after federal authorities raided his downtown office and took...
Guilty man? Alleged Ponzi schemer set to plead
Published on May 5th, 2009
6 comments Alleged Ponzi-schemer John M. Donnelly FILE PHOTO Following in the footsteps of the biggest scam artist of all time, Bernard Madoff, an Albemarle County man accused of running a Ponzi scheme is...