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Great frauds in history: Arthur Nadel’s day-trading scam
Profiles When failed lawyer Arthur Nadel's hedge fund collapsed, it claimed to have $350m in assets. But it had just $500,000 in the bank.
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Great frauds in history: Jean-Pierre van Rossem's money-making machine
Profiles Jean-Pierre van Rossem told investors he had a supercomputer able to make money by predicting market movements. He didn't.
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Great frauds in history... Lee B. Farkas’s dodgy mortgages
Profiles Lee Bentley Farkas transformed TBW into one of the largest mortgage brokers in the US – his fraud is reckoned to have cost around €3bn.
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Great frauds in history: the downfall of Ferdinand Ward – the "Napoleon of finance"
Profiles Ferdinand Ward launched a Ponzi-style scheme based on fictitious government contracts, bringing down the Marine National Bank.
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Great frauds in history: OPM Leasing Services
Profiles Childhood friends Mordecai Weissman and Myron Goodman siphoned off huge amounts of money from their company to spend on mansions, a private jet and a chauffeured limousine.
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Great frauds in history: Allen Chan of Sino-Forest
Profiles Allen Chan fooled many investors by falsifying the accounts of his Canadian-listed Chinese forestry company.
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Great frauds in history: Ronnie Ewton’s ruinous punt on rates
Profiles Ex life-insurance salesman Ronnie Ewton's bet on interest rates cost investors millions and led to the collapse of an American savings bank.
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Great frauds in history: Philip Musica AKA "Dr Coster"
Features On the surface “Dr Coster” appeared to be a successful businessman, but in reality he was skimming money from his medical supplies company.
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Great frauds in history: Jack Clark’s nursing homes
Profiles Jack Clark invented sales, inflated profits and produced fraudulent accounts at his chain of nursing homes to swindle investors out of hundreds of millions.
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