Another day, another SEC exposed ponzi scheme
America Blog Feb 20 09That didn't take long from the last scandal in big finance. Two days? The good news is that the SEC is a functioning organization despite them being MIA for a few years. The bad news is it's another ponzi scheme. The Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a court order halting an alleged Ponzi scheme by Hawaii-based Billions Coupons and its CEO Marvin R. Cooper that was targeting members of the Deaf community in the U.S. and Japan. The SEC alleges Billions Coupons and Cooper raised more than $4.4 million from 125 investors since at least September 2007 by holding investment seminars at community centers for investors who were deaf. Full story...
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America Blog 13 hours agoAs Cillizza notes, mid-cycle, that tends to mean turmoil in GOP land.
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Obama's approval slips below 50%, but...
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Ronald Reagan’s average job approval rating in the months before his first mid-term Congressional election, in 1982, was 42 percent — and Republicans that November lost 26 seats.
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America Blog 20 hours agoFunny. Mocking Jewish names. Perhaps Glenn Beck thinks that people with "funny" names are all immigrants and thus not "real" Americans.
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