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Palacio de Gamazo, Afinsa’s former headquarters at 26 Calle de Génova, Madrid, photographed in 2014.

Afinsa

Case StudiesConsumer protection

A collectible-asset business built around promised repurchases, internal pricing and dependence on new money; followed by criminal, insolvency and cross-border proceedings.

The columned Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, photographed in 2016.

Coingate

Case StudiesPublic institutions

How Ohio workers’ compensation money entered privately managed coin funds; how records exposed misuse; and why liquidation proceeds do not erase theft.

Former Stanford Financial Group offices in Houston, with the Stanford Financial name above the entrance.

The Stanford fraud

Case StudiesFinancial oversight

Offshore certificates of deposit, concealed uses of investor money, repeated regulatory warnings and recovery proceedings spanning several jurisdictions.

Overlapping counterfeit wine labels used by Rudy Kurniawan, photographed and published in the FBI’s account of its investigation.

Spectrum Wine

Case StudiesConsumer protection

The 2012 Spectrum–Vanquish London auction, its connection to Rudy Kurniawan’s counterfeit-wine prosecution, and the corporate link to Afinsa.

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4 reports · Edition October 29, 2026

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Each report brings together a chronology, key people and institutions, financial measures, legal outcomes and analysis. Source references lead to the underlying records and reporting; discussion questions support evaluation of the evidence and conclusions.

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