financial pyramid

"We've been going after the top of the financial pyramid in New York.

The financial pyramid affair shows that strengthening controls would not be amiss.

Without the help of a number of Italian banks, the fraud committed through the financial pyramids could never have taken place.

Ponzi schemes and financial pyramids are not illegal under Russian law.

The Government said at the time that the direct-selling operations functioned as financial pyramid schemes and contributed to social unrest.

The country has descended into chaos in recent weeks after huge financial pyramid schemes collapsed, wiping out the savings of many Albanians.

On Wall Street, investment bankers sit at the top of the financial pyramid; here they mainly play the role of courtiers.

Albania has been in chaos, brought about by the collapse of financial pyramid schemes in which many Albanians lost their life savings.

The rebellion against Mr. Berisha in southern Albania, where most of this poor nation's little wealth resides, started with anger at the collapse of financial pyramid schemes.

Hard-core skeptics say that it's all just a lot of talk without a payoff, and that it takes about as much money from the attendees as a global financial pyramid would.

The ultimate beneficial owner of GreenZap was reported to be Damon Westmoreland, who was reportedly associated with ThePayline.com, a widespread Internet financial pyramid.

Admittedly, there are armed bands and criminals but there is above all violent opposition, of a kind we cannot endorse, to the President for two reasons: his self-election and the financial pyramid crisis.

Roughly 13,000 Albanians have reached Italy in recent weeks to escape their country's turmoil, which began with citizen protests over failed financial pyramid schemes that wiped out the savings of many Albanians.

I would remind you that we had this selfsame debate about a year ago when the collapse of the financial pyramid schemes was followed by popular unrest, and there too we were too slow off the mark with our decisions.

But the favorite in the race is Sergei Mavrodi, the mysterious boss of the MMM financial pyramid, who was released from jail to run here and who can stay out of jail by winning the seat, which would give him parliamentary immunity.