Flashcards: American people convicted of fraud

Samuel Israel III (born July 20, 1959) is an American-born former hedge fund manager for the Bayou Hedge Fund Group, which he founded in 1996.

Kenneth Andrew Walton (born November 23, 1967) is an American software developer and author of the memoir Fake: Forgery, Lies, & eBay, which details his time spent selling forged art on the online auction site eBay.

Rajiv Goel was an American executive at Intel.

Louis Jay "Lou" Pearlman (June 19, 1954 – August 19, 2016) was an American record producer and fraudster.

Teresa Giudice (/ˈdʒuːdaɪs/; née Gorga; born May 18, 1972) is a reality television cast-member, known for starring in The Real Housewives of New Jersey.

John Angelo Gotti (born February 14, 1964) known as "Junior" Gotti, is a former New York City mobster who, according to law enforcement claims, was acting boss of the Gambino crime family from 1992 to 1999 after his father, John J.

Dennis Dale "Denny" McLain (born March 29, 1944) is an American former professional baseball player.

Reed Eliot Slatkin (born January 22, 1949 in Detroit, Michigan) was an initial investor and co-founder of EarthLink and the perpetrator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the United States since that conducted by Charles Ponzi himself.

Fritz Julius Kuhn (May 15, 1896 – December 14, 1951) was the leader of the German American Bund, prior to World War II.

Michael Anthony Rizzitello (March 15, 1929 – October 26, 2005), also known as "Mike Rizzi", was an Italian American mobster in the Los Angeles crime family.

Linda Taylor (born either Martha Louise Miller or Martha Louise White; c. 1926 – April 18, 2002) was an American criminal who committed extensive welfare fraud and became identified as the "welfare queen".

Jay Fletcher Vincent (born June 10, 1959) is a retired American professional basketball player.

James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa (February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975) was an American labor union leader and author who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union from 1958 until 1971.

Jordan Ross Belfort (/ˈbɛlfɔːrt/; born July 9, 1962) is an American author, motivational speaker, and former stockbroker.

Dale Brown (born November 2, 1956) is an American writer and aviator known for aviation techno-thriller novels.

Leona Mindy Roberts Helmsley (July 4, 1920 – August 20, 2007) was an American businesswoman.

Adam C. Hochfelder (born 1971) is an American real estate executive who co-founded the real estate firm Max Capital in 1996, with members of the powerful Kalikow real estate family.

Bruce Patrick McNall (born April 17, 1950) is a former Thoroughbred racehorse owner, and a sports executive who once owned the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL) and the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL).

Joseph A. "Joey" Buttafuoco (born March 11, 1956) is an auto body shop owner from Long Island.

John A. Mulheren, Jr.

Paul Edmund Flato (September 1, 1900 – July 17, 1999), was a popular American jeweler, based in New York City from the 1920s to the early 1940s.

Jeb Stuart Magruder (November 5, 1934 – May 11, 2014) was an American businessman and political operative in the Republican Party when he joined the administration of President Richard Nixon in 1969.

Rumeal James Robinson (born November 13, 1966) is a retired American professional basketball player.

Esther Elizabeth Reed (born March 8, 1978) is an American woman convicted of fraud and identity theft charges.

Roscoe Tanner (born October 15, 1951) is a retired American professional tennis player, who turned pro in 1972 and reached a career-high world singles ranking of World No.

Lyndon Hermyle LaRouche, Jr.

Gina Marie Marks (born January 25, 1973) is an American psychic and convicted fraudster.

Irwin Allen Schiff (February 23, 1928 – October 16, 2015) was an American tax protester known for writing and promoting literature in which he claimed the income tax in the United States is illegal and unconstitutional.

John James Rigas (born November 14, 1924) is one of the founders of Adelphia Communications Corporation, which at its peak was one of the largest cable TV companies in the United States.

(For other people with similar names, see Ken Starr (disambiguation).) Kenneth Ira Starr is a disbarred attorney and former money manager convicted of running a $35 million Ponzi scheme with the money of numerous wealthy and celebrity clients.

Ivan Frederick Boesky (born March 6, 1937) is a former American stock trader who is notable for his prominent role in a Wall Street insider trading scandal that occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s.

Norman Yung Yuen Hsu, born October 1951, is a convicted pyramid investment promoter who associated himself with the apparel industry.

Norman Tweed Whitaker (April 9, 1890 – May 20, 1975) was an American International Master of chess, a lawyer, a civil servant, and a chess author.

Scott D. Sullivan was an American Certified Public Accountant and the former Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, Treasurer, and a board member of WorldCom, who was convicted as part of WorldCom's $3.

Scott W. Rothstein (born June 10, 1962) is a disbarred lawyer and the former managing shareholder, chairman, and chief executive officer of the now-defunct Rothstein Rosenfeldt Adler law firm.

Rosemarie Pence (formerly Hannah Pence; born c. 1938) is a German-American woman known for posing as a child Holocaust survivor from the Dachau Concentration Camp.

Belay Dwight Reddick (born January 9, 1969) is a mentor coach, youth advocate, and conflict resolution expert.

Gary A. Tanaka (born June 23, 1943, in Hunt, Idaho) is a Japanese-American businessman, sportsman and philanthropist who co-founded the investment company Amerindo Investment Advisors in 1979 along with Alberto Vilar.

Albert Gonzalez (born 1981) is an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 through 2007—the biggest such fraud in history.

James Orsen "Jim" Bakker (pronounced "Baker"; born January 2, 1940) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of The PTL Club, an evangelical Christian television program.

Curtis Howe Springer (December 2, 1896 – August 19, 1985) was an American radio evangelist, self-proclaimed medical doctor and Methodist minister best known for founding the Zzyzx Mineral Springs resort located within Southern California's Mojave Desert.

Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff (/ˈmeɪdɒf/; born April 29, 1938) is an American fraudster and a former stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier.

David Mordechai Packouz (/pækhaʊs/ born February 16, 1982) is an American former arms dealer, musician, inventor and entrepreneur.

Frank DiPascali, Jr.

William Aramony (July 27, 1927 – November 11, 2011) was CEO of United Way of America for more than twenty years and helped build the organization into the largest charity in the United States.

Clifford Michael Irving (born November 5, 1930) is an American novelist and investigative reporter.

Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin (born October 6, 1959) is an American former chief executive officer of Agriprocessors, a now-bankrupt kosher slaughterhouse and meat packing plant in Postville, Iowa, formerly owned by his father, Aaron Rubashkin.

Hassan Nemazee (born January 27, 1950) is a multimillionaire Iranian-American investment banker and convicted felon.

Marc Stuart Dreier (born May 12, 1950) is a former American lawyer who was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in 2009 for committing investment fraud using a Ponzi scheme.

Matthew Bevan Cox (born July 2, 1969), commonly known as Matthew Cox, also sometimes known as Matthew B.

Richard F. "Dickie" Scruggs (born May 17, 1946) is an American former A6A naval aviator, a prominent trial lawyer, and the brother-in-law of former U.

Robert Emmet Brennan (born 1944) was an American businessman who built the infamous penny stock brokerage firm, First Jersey Securities.

Ron Rewald (born September 24, 1942) is a former Hawaii investment advisor, professional football player and self-described CIA agent who was convicted of wire fraud and mail fraud in 1985.

Cecil Byran Jacobson (born October 2, 1936) is an American former fertility doctor who used his own sperm to impregnate his patients without informing them.

Jeffrey Keith "Jeff" Skilling (born November 25, 1953) is the former CEO of the Enron Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Rajat Kumar Gupta ([ɾɔdʒot̪ kumaɾ ɡupt̪o]; born 2 December 1948) is an American businessman and philanthropist who served a two-year term in U.

Mark Edward Whitacre (born May 1, 1957) came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) based in Decatur, Illinois, he was the highest-level corporate executive in U.

Joseph Michael Swango (born October 21, 1954) is an American serial killer and a licensed physician.

Leonard Kyle Dykstra (/ˈdaɪkstrə/; born February 10, 1963), is a former Major League Baseball center fielder.

Douglas Michael Gottlieb (born January 15, 1976, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a former NCAA collegiate and professional (USBL) basketball player, as well as a basketball analyst.

Martin Arthur Armstrong (born November 1, 1949 in New Jersey) is the former chairman of Princeton Economics International Ltd.

Russell Erxleben (born January 13, 1957) is a former American football player and currency investor.

Thomas Joseph Petters is an American businessman and the chairman and CEO of Petters Group Worldwide who was convicted of massive business fraud in 2009 and is now imprisoned at the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth.

Charles Humphrey Keating, Jr.

Charles Humphrey Keating III (nicknamed C3; born August 20, 1955) is an American former competitive swimmer and real estate executive.

David W. Mays III (born June 20, 1949 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas) is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League.

David G. Friehling (born November 27, 1959) is an American accountant who was arrested and charged in March 2009 for his role in the Madoff investment scandal.

Dennis B. Levine (born August 1952) was a prominent player in merger and acquisition business and the Wall Street insider trading scandals of the mid-1980s.

Tim Donaghy (/ˈdɒnəɡi/; born January 7, 1967) is a former professional basketball referee who worked in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 13 seasons, member of the Los Angeles Lakers 2002 championship team, ref from 1994 to 2007.

James Arthur Hogue (born October 22, 1959) is a US impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan.

Jeffrey R. Chodorow (born March 2, 1950) is an American restaurateur, lawyer & financier.

Shearn Moody Jr. (May 23, 1933 – June 25, 1996) was an American financier, entrepreneur and philanthropist from Galveston, Texas.