*Larenz Tate is headed to the big screen in the indie film “Business Ethics,” a dark comedy about a man who sets out to run a Ponzi scheme, according to Deadline.com. Tate plays Zachery Cranston, an ...

David Brown Levy, at the center of the photo. (Photo illustration by Jim Cooke / Los Angeles Times; photo courtesy of Isabel Mandujano) A Hollywood producer bilked film and business partners out of ...

Kevin Spacey‘s first film as director in more than 20 years was written by and stars a man wanted by U.S. authorities for being part of an alleged cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. “The Portal of Force” ...

A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty this afternoon to a federal securities fraud charge and admitted operating a Ponzi scheme that raised at least $650 million with bogus claims that investor money would ...

An aspiring actor was indicted Tuesday in Los Angeles on suspicion of running a massive Ponzi scheme that solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from investors for phony Hollywood film licensing ...