Legal Opinion
Carlos Zelaya v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided March 30, 2015No. 13-14780PublishedCited by 141 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JULIE CARNES, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs in this case, Carlos Zelaya and George Glantz, are victims of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history: the much-publicized Ponzi scheme orchestrated by R. Allen Stanford. All Ponzi operations eventually unravel, and when the scheme that had victimized Plaintiffs was publicly revealed to have been a fraud, Plaintiffs were taken by surprise. Yet, according to Plaintiffs, the federal agency entrusted with the duty of trying to prevent, or at least reveal, Ponzi schemes was not all that surprised. To the contrary, this agency, the United…
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