Flashcards: Fraudsters

Rod Blagojevich (/bləˈɡɔɪ.əvɪtʃ/, born December 10, 1956) served as the 40th Governor of Illinois from 2003 to 2009.

James Warren "Jim" Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader.

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

Nicholas William "Nick" Leeson (born 25 February 1967) is a former derivatives broker whose fraudulent, unauthorised speculative trading caused the spectacular collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest merchant bank, for which he was sentenced to prison.

Joseph "Yellow Kid" Weil (July 1, 1875 – February 26, 1976) was one of the best known American con men of his era.

Emmanuel Constant (nicknamed "Toto", born on October 27, 1956) is the founder of FRAPH, a Haitian death squad that terrorised supporters of exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Giuseppe "the Clutch Hand" Morello (May 2, 1867 – August 15, 1930), also known as "The Old Fox", was the first boss of the Morello crime family and later top adviser to Giuseppe "Joe the Boss" Masseria.

Reggie Dwayne Johnson (born August 28, 1966 in Houston, Texas) is a southpaw American boxer who held the WBA middleweight title and IBF light-heavyweight title during his career.

Grigory Petrovich Grabovoy (Russian: Григо́рий Петро́вич Грабово́й) (born November 14, 1963 in the region of Shymkent, Kazakhstan) is a Russian Doctor of Mathematics.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (born Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela on 26 September 1936) is a South African activist and politician who has held several government positions and headed the African National Congress Women's League.

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

Ronald Joseph "Butch" DeFeo Jr.

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

Mark Basseley Youssef, formerly known as Nakoula Basseley Nakoula (born 1957), is an Egyptian-born Coptic Christian, a U.

Saif Durbar is an Indian-Pakistani property dealer convicted of fraud in France.

Mahafarid Amir Khosravi (c. 1969 – May 24, 2014), also known as Amir Mansour Aria (Persian: امیر منصور آریا ‎‎), was an Iranian businessman who was executed for his part in the 2011 Iranian embezzlement scandal.

Pearlasia Gamboa (born Elvira G. Gamboa) is a Filipino American business woman involved in controversial banking and investments, for which she has been successfully sued by the U.

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.

Farid T. Fata (born 1965) is a Lebanese-born former hematologist / oncologist and the admitted mastermind of one of the largest health care frauds in American history.

Daniel Dingel was a controversial Filipino engineer who claimed to have invented a “hydrogen reactor” - a device which he claims to have used to power a water-fuelled car.

Minna Craucher (23 August 1891 in Pirkkala – 8 March 1932 in Helsinki) was the false name of Maria Vilhelmiina Lindell, a Finnish socialite and spy.

Neville George Clevely Heath (6 June 1917 – 16 October 1946) was an English murderer who was responsible for the deaths of two young women.

Abbas Gokal (born c. 1936) was convicted of fraud in May 1997 and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Russell King (born c. 1959) is a convicted fraudster.