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Mon Mar 21, 2016, 06:51 PM Mar 2016

Another Ponzi scheme

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2016/03/fast_times_on_kruse_way_aequit.html

Aequitas' wild ride came to a sudden halt Thursday when the the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shut the company down and accused three senior executives of systematically deceiving some 1,500 investors and running what amounted to a $350 million Ponzi scheme.

SEC: Aequitas played accounting tricks to mislead investors
About 75 percent of the new investor money contributed in 2014 went to corporate expenses rather than investments. The figure rose to 85 percent in 2015, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claims.
The company, run by the same top executives team for more than two decades and guided by an advisory board of business and political big shots, has become one of the darkest financial scandals in a generation. Jesenik and his senior partner, Brian Oliver, talked a lot about the "Aequitas Way," a manner of behaving in business guided by their evangelical Christian beliefs. But today a different "Aequitas Way" has surfaced marked by out-of-control spending, subprime loans to the poor and alleged fraud.
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Another Ponzi scheme (Original Post) sense Mar 2016 OP
first thing i do when a business tells me it's christian Viva_La_Revolution Mar 2016 #1
It seems that the more Christian you are the more preverted you are vinny9698 Mar 2016 #2

Viva_La_Revolution

(28,791 posts)
1. first thing i do when a business tells me it's christian
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 07:20 PM
Mar 2016

Is to promptly back away and take my money elsewhere. Learned this after being the employee of a few such businesses.

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)
2. It seems that the more Christian you are the more preverted you are
Mon Mar 21, 2016, 08:18 PM
Mar 2016

Just look at most of those TV Christian ministers, most make mega dollars and spend most of it on themselves.
Joel Olstein prime example.

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