Curtis Quigley drowned in the Okanagan before he could stand trial. A B.C. judge just ruled the trustee can move fast on the investors who came out ahead, because in a Ponzi scheme, coming out ahead means you were paid with someone else's money.
For seven years, Fred Sharp allegedly ran the back office of a billion-dollar penny stock machine from a quiet B.C. address. This week, Canada's highest court closed the last door he had left.
For three years a Victoria mortgage broker promised short-term real estate bridge loans paying returns no honest loan could carry. PricewaterhouseCoopers later found the loans were never there. On Friday, Greg Martel was arrested in the country of Georgia.