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Slatkin
Reed Eliot Slatkin (born 22 January 1949 in Detroit, Michigan) was an initial investor and co-founder of EarthLink. In May 2001, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shut down Slatkin's scheme by filing an enforcement action and obtaining a temporary restraining order freezing his remaining assets. Since 1986 Slatkin had raised approximately $593 million from over 500 wealthy investors. Among his victims were many Hollywood celebrities, and he funnelled much of the money to the Church of Scientology and their related entities. Slatkin pled guilty to multiple counts and on September 2, 2003, he was sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison.[9] His Federal Bureau of Prisons registration number is 24057-112. On November 8, 2006, the Associated Press reported that Scientology would pay back 3.5 million dollars of the money.

Madoff
Bernard Lawrence Madoff (born April 29, 1938) is an American businessman and former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. On December 11, 2008 he was charged with perpetrating the largest investor fraud ever committed by a single individual. According to the U.S. Attorney's office in the southern district of New York, Madoff admitted to defrauding clients for up to $50 billion.

Further reading: Mitchell Zuckoff, ISBN 1400060397.