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Corporate Crime

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Bernie Madoff's cellar nets $41,530 in auction

    Madoff's cellar nets $41,000 in auction. ​Remember Bernie Madoff? The most notorious of the white-collar criminals nailed when the economy was going to hell for using the biggest Ponzi scheme in American history to swindle investors -- including several Coloradans -- out of a cool $65 billion? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    John Reinholdt II gets sixteen year sentence, to pay $2.5 million restitution in Ponzi scheme

    Charles Ponzi.​Charles Ponzi may be dead and buried, but his infamous scheme continues to inspire sharpies across the globe -- like, for instance, John Reinholdt II, who was just sentenced to sixteen years behind bars, and ordered to pay $2.5 million restitution in a complex, long-running frau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Shawn Merriman, aka Mormon Madoff: Auction of amazing Ponzi scheme booty (PHOTOS)

    Shawn Merriman.​Shawn Merriman, aka the Mormon Madoff, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in December 2009, earning a twelve-year sentence for Ponzi scheming that allowed him to amass an amazing collection of classic cars and more. This Saturday, Merriman's playthings go on the block. The photos of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 2, 2010

    Regas Christou files suit against Beta owner Brad Roulier, Beatport and AM Only

    ​Hot on the heels of a profile in 5280 magazine, nightclub impresario Regas Christou has made some real news: He's filed suit against Beatport, Brad Roulier, Beta and AM Only. While we haven't had a chance to pore over the entire brief, which was filed yesterday in U.S. District Court, it appe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    Sean Mueller pleads guilty in Ponzi scheme that ripped off John Elway, others for $71 million

    Large photo below.​Last month, we told you about Sean Mueller's alleged Ponzi scheme, which reportedly netted $71 million from 65 investors. Included among them: Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway, whose $15 million loss may have pushed Mueller toward a suicide attempt. Today, Mueller pleaded ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    John Elway among investors who allegedly got screwed by accused Ponzi schemer Sean Mueller

    Sean Mueller.​Yesterday, Sean Mueller was charged with racketeering and other counts in association with an alleged Ponzi scheme that he ran over the span of a decade. Denver Broncos legend John Elway was among 65 folks who invested a reported $71 million with Mueller, whose unmasking was pre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2010

    General Steel, controversial Colorado building company, faces more lawsuits

    Defendants again.​Update, 4:17 p.m.: Comments from General Steel have been incorporated into the original post, published at 2:28 p.m. Colorado's General Steel Corporation is being sued in federal civil court for fresh allegations of fraud similar to those that cost the company more than $4.5 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Donnie Young's widow allegedly ripped off by Xavier Joseph Duran for over $700,000

    Xavier Joseph Duran allegedly targeted an extraordinarily sympathetic victim.​The Denver District Attorney's Office release about an indictment naming Xavier Joseph Duran is brief and fairly colorless. But the references to multiple counts of securities fraud and series theft are accompanied b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2010

    Brandon Marshall in Denver Blogs: Do the Broncos want to get rid of him or not?

    Will he stay or will he go?​It's that time again, Denver blog lovers. Mile High Report's John Bena is baffled by ESPN writer Bill Williamson's take on the Brandon Marshall drama, which seems to simultaneously praise and criticize the Broncos for their first-round tender offer. The confusion c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    Bernie Madoff auction in Aspen? Sort of... kind of... maybe...

    Bernie Madoff's name is still financial magic.​Bernie Madoff's well-documented financial shenanigans may have landed him in jail, but they've also enhanced the marketability of his name. As evidence, note the ad in today's Denver Post pimping a "BERNIE MADOFF AUCTION" tomorrow at St. Regis Res ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2009

    John Denver, Bernie Madoff & Me rules New York

    ​John Denver once admitted that "Rocky Mountain High" was written under the influence of LSD and marijuana -- and now that his anthem is our state song, the Colorado legislature should write their medical marijuana legislation under the influence of John Denver. But drugs aren't the reason wh ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 8, 2009

    The cons are pros in The Voysey Inheritance

    ​John Denver once admitted that "Rocky Mountain High" was written under the influence of LSD and marijuana -- and now that his anthem is our state song, the Colorado legislature should write their medical marijuana legislation under the influence of John Denver. But drugs aren't the reason wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Shmuck of the Week: Shawn Merriman, aka the Mormon Madoff

    An early front-runner for Shmuck of the Year, Shawn Merriman this week was officially charged for his orchestration of a massive Ponzi scheme that made him rich, left friends and investors broke, and had Bernie Madoff saying to his prison boyfriend, "Hey, this guy stole my moves!"

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Murder-by-snake case takes on new twist as the victim, Matt Sowash, is arrested

     Poker tour entrepreneurs Matt Sowash and Andrew "Doc" Hicks were arrested this week and charged with securities fraud. Investigators have been working on the case for two years, ever since two other men hatched a plot to kill Sowash using rattlesnakes. In that case, detailed in the 2007 Westw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    If Tausha Marsh did fake cancer, here's hoping she invested her profits with the Mormon Madoff

    A photo from alleged cancer-faker Tausha Marsh's MySpace page.Attention, Denver! Please keep your wallet in your front pocket at all times, shred all documents, and ask your girlfriend for two forms of ID before you let her in your apartment. Because apparently it's Really Brazen But Not All That Cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    What should Joe Nacchio do with his last six days of freedom?

    An image from Channel 4's coverage of a certain Joe Nacchio. A judge has ruled that disgraced Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio must report to a Pennsylvania prison by noon on Tuesday, April 14, to begin serving his six-year insider-trading sentence, which he's asked the Supreme Court to review. What should he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2009

    Department of Justice trying to preserve at least one newspaper JOA

    The blog "Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up" deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven't truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Roc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2007

    Macho Nacchio Man

    The blog "Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up" deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven't truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Roc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2007

    Left Behind: Republicans Need Not Apply

    The blog "Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up" deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven't truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Roc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2007

    Left Behind: Republicans Need Not Apply

    The blog "Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up" deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven't truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Roc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2006

    Down for the Count

    The blog "Debate Over Spiked Rocky Mountain News Media Column Heats Up" deals in part with a piece by Jason Salzman, who feels the Denver dailies haven't truly measured the chances that the Justice Department might choose to prevent the dissolution of a joint-operating agreement that links the Roc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 4, 2002

    Best David and Goliath Battle

    Nobody in Particular Presents vs. Clear Channel Entertainment

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Welcome Home

    A fugitive makes her way back to Denver.

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Take the Money and Run

    It took sixteen years and international extradition, but the Colorado Attorney General’s Office finally got its man.

  • News

    June 5, 1997

    Give Till It Hurts

    Through the valley of debt with Pastor Charles E. Blair.

  • News

    November 28, 1996

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    For accused con man Christian Lawless Harper, a mine is a terrible thing to waste.

  • News

    February 15, 1995

    BLANK YOU VERY MUCH

    For accused con man Christian Lawless Harper, a mine is a terrible thing to waste.

  • News

    October 5, 1994

    CONFIDENCE MAN

    HE SAID HE WORKED FOR THE CIA AND HAD A HIDDEN PIPELINE TO KUWAITI OIL MONEY. BUT POLICE NEVER DID CATCH UP TO COLORADO SCAM ARTIST JOHN SAVAGE--OR HIS MILLIONS.TRUE LIES WHEN HE DIED IN AUGUST, MASTER CRIMINAL JOHN SAVAGE LEFT BEHIND A TRAIL OF UNANSWERE

  • News

    January 19, 1994

    REDEEMING VALUE

    A GROUP TRIES TO CONVERT A PIECE OF A CONVICTED PREACHER'S EMPIRE TO GOOD USE.

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