peoplepill id: steven-hoffenberg
American fraudster
Steven Hoffenberg
The basics
Quick Facts
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
Steven Hoffenberg is the chairman of Towersinvestors.com,a financial services company and the online newspaper, Postpublishing.buzz. In 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. Judge Robert W. Sweet sentenced him to 20 years in prison, plus a $1 million fine and $463 million in restitution. He settled a civil suit with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $60 million. Hoffenberg is currently paying back all of the above investors debt. He was the owner of the New York Post.
At the time the SEC considered the fraud to be "one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history."
The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia
article.
The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Steven Hoffenberg is in following lists
By field of work
By work and/or country
comments so far.
Comments
Steven Hoffenberg