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Area Man Charged With Running Multimillion-Dollar Ponzi, Embezzlement Schemes Area Man Charged With Running Multimillion-Dollar Ponzi, Embezzlement Schemes
Area Man Charged With Running Multimillion-Dollar Ponzi, Embezzlement Schemes The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against a Hudson Valley investment adviser who allegedly operated a multimillion-dollar investment club that was actually a Ponzi scheme targeting the Haitian community. Nanuet resident Ruless Pierre, 50, was charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and structuring charges by the SEC in an indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court this week after he was involved in a pair of fraud schemes. The SEC's complaint alleges that Pierre ran an investment club called the Amongst Friends Investment Group in Nanuet that operated as a frau…