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  2. San Angelo police warn of scam impacting oil field, gas ...

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    The San Angelo Police Department is warning the public about a scammer targeting businesses in the oil field and gas supply sectors. "An individual, posing as a legitimate buyer, has been ...

  3. Mutual Benefits Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The scheme resulted in a conviction for fraud and a lifetime ban from the securities industry. However, this conviction did not stop Steinger. Steinger continued to run a variety of investments scams from oil wells to diet pizza. In 1994, Steinger set up the Mutual Benefits Corporation. [1]

  4. The Great Salad Oil Swindle - Wikipedia

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    In 1963, De Angelis was responsible for the Salad Oil scandal, a major financial racket involving fraudulent warehouse receipts, when he attempted to corner the soybean oil market. Soybean oil is an ingredient of salad dressing and has many other uses. In the aftermath of the scandal, 51 investors were swindled out of approximately $175 million ...

  5. Salad oil scandal - Wikipedia

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    The salad oil scandal, also referred to as the soybean scandal, was an American major corporate scandal in 1963 that caused over $180 million ($1.79 billion today) in losses to corporations including American Express, Bank of America and Bank Leumi, as well as many international trading companies. [1]

  6. Ex-CIA Deputy Director Frank Carlucci Fell for This Scam ...

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    For example, a Google search for "plastic + into oil + machine + hoax" might have turned up a link to this 2010 post on the snopes.com website-- two years before Carlucci finally caught on to his ...

  7. How an Oil Baron's Heir Cleaned Up a $1.4 Billion Internet Scam

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    When Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) took over the Senate Commerce Committee in 2009, he wisely decided to focus on using his leadership position to make life better for consumers. In ...

  8. Tino De Angelis - Wikipedia

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    Anthony "Tino" De Angelis (November 3, 1915 – September 26, 2009) [3] was a Bayonne, New Jersey, commodities trader who dealt in vegetable oil futures worldwide.. In 1962 De Angelis' company, Allied Crude Vegetable Oil Refining Corporation, bilked 51 banks out of over $180 million ($1.79 billion today) in what became known as the Salad Oil scandal after he failed to corner the soybean oil ...

  9. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    Grant and Abdallah were accused of having operated KGTA as a Ponzi scheme. The oil purchase orders never existed and KGTA did not sell fuel or oil to its purported buyers, according to the complaint. In classic Ponzi scheme fashion, KGTA allegedly used some of the funds raised from new investors to pay fake returns to earlier investors.