Drew Brees Has a Dream He'd Like to Sell You
It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.
It’s a multilevel marketing company called AdvoCare. Or maybe it’s a pyramid scheme.
Mina Kimes ESPN the Magazine Mar 2016 20min Permalink
Bill Ackman’s hedge fund planned to make a fortune while doing good by exposing Herbalife as a scheme that preyed upon and lied to the poor. How one of the highest profile stock shorts in market history went awry.
Sheelah Kolhatkar New Yorker Feb 2017 35min Permalink
Is Vemma an energy drink, the new Amway or a pyramid scheme taking advantage of college kids? Maybe all three.
Caleb Hannan Rolling Stone Oct 2014 20min Permalink
Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.
Beth Healy, Nathan B. Thompson Boston Globe Jun 2014 15min Permalink
On William H. McMasters, who ten days after being hired as Charles Ponzi’s publicist wrote a scathing exposé in The Boston Post that revealed the biggest fraud, at the time, in American history.
Cora Bullock Fraud Magazine Jul 2011 10min Permalink