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01 / Public investment & oversight
Coingate
Who was checking the people entrusted with public money?
How Ohio workers’ compensation money entered privately managed coin funds; how records exposed misuse; and why liquidation proceeds do not erase theft.
02 / Collectibles & promised returns
Afinsa
What happens when the promised exit price exceeds the market for the asset?
A collectible-asset business built around promised repurchases, internal pricing and dependence on new money; followed by criminal, insolvency and cross-border proceedings.
03 / Banking & regulatory failure
The Stanford fraud
How did a promise of safe deposits survive years of warning signs?
Offshore certificates of deposit, concealed uses of investor money, repeated regulatory warnings and recovery proceedings spanning several jurisdictions.
04 / Auctions & authenticity
Spectrum Wine
Can an auction establish authenticity without establishing a bottle’s real source?
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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