The agent, Miles Burton Marshall, was based in Hamilton, and solicited unsuspecting clients to invest millions of dollars into his so-called “Eight Percent Fund,” claiming that their funds would be ...

(Original Caption) Charles Ponzi, the "financial wizard" of Boston who succeeded in amassing a fortune through his endless chain of sales of Foreign Exchange following the World War, later went to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. Todd Burkhalter, the CEO of the Georgia-based financial advisory group Drive ...