Former Anderson County Council member and convicted Ponzi schemer Ron Wilson has been released from federal prison. He is either in home incarceration or a halfway house, a spokesman for the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement Monday. The federal prison system does not release more specific information for privacy and security reasons, the spokesman said. Records show Wilson was transferred Thursday to a reentry program out of Atlanta. Wilson was convicted in 2012 of running a years-long silver investment scheme that bought little to no silver for investors. The $57 million Ponzi scheme took money from nearly 800 people, including Wilson’s brother and daughter, and is one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the state's history.