Ponzi scheme at a glance
January 4, 2013 at 3:45AM
• 724 investors filed claims.
• Their average claim was $219,000.
• Their average age was 66 in 2012.
• At least 133 people lost more than half of what they reported as their net worth.
• Almost three quarters of the investors in this fraud self-reported their annual income as less than $100,000.
• Over 30 percent reported earning less than $50,000 a year.
DAN BROWNING
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