Ponzi schemes enforcement actions

This library records 474 enforcement actions tagged ponzi schemes. A Ponzi scheme pays returns to earlier investors from later investors' money rather than from genuine profits, which is investment fraud with no market involvement and no price to manipulate.

Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the ponzi schemes technique page.

Actions

100

Total penalties

$6.1bn

Median penalty

$1.6m

Largest

$5.9bn

Criminal parallel

37%