Ponzi / Pyramid

The pension he earned on Sundays is the only thing left for the people he took.

John Robert Leake pitched gold mines in Ghana and villas in Costa Rica. Six investors gave him roughly $8.1 million. Federal prosecutors are now asking a California court to garnish the NFL benefits he earned as a linebacker to pay back what the court says he stole.

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