Legal Opinion
Brooks v. Bank of Boulder
District Court, D. Colorado
Decided January 17, 1996No. 1:20-y-00061PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER ON PENDING MOTIONS
KANE, Senior District Judge.
John and Lorraine Brooks (“Plaintiffs”) allege M & L Business Machines Co. (“M & L”) operated a fraudulent Ponzi scheme in which investors were promised very high rates of return from the resale of computers and office equipment and encouraged to reinvest their returns. The equipment did not exist, however, and the returns were funded by investor capital as well as a check kiting scheme in which M & L deposited funds from the Ponzi scheme into accounts maintained at the Bank of Boulder (“the Bank”) and created a negative account balance by…
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