That varies by state, and how much was stole, and too many other circumstances.
However, it can be said that if you steal $50 from a convenience store you will get ten times the sentence of the man who defrauds the convenient store company of $50,000.
A Ponzi Scheme Or a Pyramid scheme.
Caritas - Ponzi scheme - ended in 1994.
Caritas - Ponzi scheme - was created in 1992.
The Ponzi Scheme was created on 1998-03-31.
If you were an investor in Madoff's ponzi scheme, you lost money.
The Agape scandal was the fact that they were defrauding people with the Ponzi scheme.
The Ponzi Scheme/ Pyramid Scheme Created by Charles Ponzi
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You can joke it is like a Ponzi scheme as far as money from one investor is used to "pay" another and so on....
The definition of a ponzi scheme is that ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to separate investors from their own money or money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profits earned by the individual or organization running the operation.
It is never ok to take part in a ponzi scheme. It is not honest or legal.
The only word I could think of that rhymes with "fonzie" is ponzi (like in a ponzi scheme).