Kentucky investors sue three banks after Brian McClain's $100 million cattle Ponzi scheme was uncovered following his suicide ...

Many of Brian McClain’s alleged victims were people from his own community — friends, neighbors who say they were blindsided ...

A Kentucky cattleman allegedly conned dozens of investors out of $100 million with promises of non-existent "ghost" cattle ...

His name is synonymous with massive fraud. Now, a new podcast. "Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story," delves into how and why ...

The Brazilian fintech company XP filed a U.S. lawsuit on Monday accusing the short seller Grizzly Research of defamation over ...

On June 29, 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that capital punishment, as then administered by individual states, was ...

Bush’s plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violated U.S. and international law. In 2009, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff received a 150-year sentence for his ...

Over a period of nine months, Ponzi went on to steal the modern equivalent of $250mn from thousands of investors, leading to his name becoming a byword for dodgy financial schemes. The most famous ...