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Wednesday, November 28, 2012  Review: Kabul Bank sent hundreds of millions of dollars out of Afghanistan

Saturday, December 11, 2010  The official says Mark Madoff was found hanged in his Manhattan apartment.

Friday, November 06, 2009  A former attorney has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for a real estate investment fraud scheme that took in a dozen victims in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee.

Friday, October 23, 2009  An attorney for a Watkinsville man says his client will pay $125,000 to local investors who accused him of luring them into a complicated Ponzi scheme.

Friday, August 21, 2009  A Gainesville man was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for bilking investors out of at least $16 million in what authorities say is the largest fraud in Hall County's history.

Thursday, June 18, 2009  Billionaire R. Allen Stanford indicted in alleged $7 billion fraud

Thursday, May 21, 2009  The former operator of a foreign exchange trading firm called CRE Capital has pleaded guilty in a $25 million fraud scheme.

Saturday, March 07, 2009  AP source says Madoff expected to plead guilty at hearing where hurt investors could speak