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Ponzi Scheme Wipes Out Author Jacquelyn Mitchard

By Mara GayJun 28th 2010 – 2:14PM
Stefano Paltera, AP

Stefano Paltera, AP

(June 28) -- Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the best-selling novel "The Deep End of the Ocean," says she has been virtually wiped out by a $190 million Ponzi scheme. The author, a mother of nine children in Madison, Wisconsin, is the victim of an international Ponzi scheme masterminded by Trevor Cook, a Minneapolis trader...

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