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Real-estate executive Kent Swig unveiled a new cryptocurrency called digau last month.
One of the parties involved in the creation of the coin is Apache Mill Tailings.
Nevada authorities have alleged it tried to sell securities illegally to fund a purported COVID-19 cure.
Kent Swig is a once prominent New York City real-estate executive trying to reinvent his career after a financial meltdown a decade ago.
Gary Wayne Walters is a felon with multiple criminal convictions who is involved in a Nevada company that regulators in that state say tried to illegally raise money for an unproven COVID-19 cure last year.
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He died Wednesday, according to an emailed statement from Brandon Sample, Madoff’s attorney. No cause was given. Madoff’s home since July 2009 was the Butner Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, North Carolina, where he was serving a 150-year term. He requested compassionate early release, citing end-stage kidney disease, in February 2020.
Up until his death, Madoff “lived with guilt and remorse for his crimes,” Sample said. “Although the crimes Bernie was convicted of have come to define who he was -he was also a father and a husband. He was soft spoken and an intellectual. Bernie was by no means perfect. But no man is.”
For years, Bernie Madoff was regarded as an investment sage.
Bernard L. Madoff, who died April 14 at 82, was the mastermind of perhaps the largest Ponzi scheme in history, a reviled symbol of Wall Street greed and, once, one of the most sought-after stockbrokers in high finance.
For years, Bernie Madoff was regarded as an investment sage. He had clients, homes and boats strewn about exclusive enclaves around the world. Leveraging the clout he had amassed as a legitimate trader, he lured - and eventually fleeced - thousands of investors who entrusted to him their retirement savings, their children s college funds and their financial security.
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