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Ponzi Scheme Wipes Out Author Jacquelyn Mitchard

(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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05/31/12 Trevor Cook associate Bo Beckman was duped, he says Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN Jason "Bo" Beckman took the stand in his federal fraud trial, hoping his own story -- in his own words -- will be the pitch that wins over the jury.
05/31/12 Mystery surrounds wayward trip of $500K U of M... Source: MinnPost - Minneapolis MN "A high-tech telescope dropped off the map somewhere between the University of Minnesota and its Texas destination for two days before mysteriously resurfacing at a Texas truck wash Wednesday night. The missing research equipment, used in NASA-funded projects to measure the universe's most minute fluctuations, was supposed to arrive at a scientific balloon facility in rural Texas by 8 a.m. Monday. ... No truck. Hours later, the team [of researchers] was still waiting, said Asad Aboobaker, a post-doctoral researcher at the U. ... After two frantic days of phone calls, Aboobaker got word Wednesday night that the trailer had been found, its seal unbroken and the precious cargo presumably undamaged. ... Minneapolis-based company Copeland Trucking had tracked the driver's cellphone to a truck stop just outside of Dallas before that signal stopped .... A phone was later found at a fast-food restaurant nearby, but no driver."
05/30/12 Will Trevor Cook testify against alleged... Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN Attorneys for the three defendants charged with running the second-largest Ponzi scheme in Minnesota history are expected to launch their case Thursday, May 31, trying to push back against a month's worth of evidence from prosecutors.
05/23/12 Witness: Kiley tried to get $600K cash before Trevor... Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press - St. Paul MN In the waning days of the Trevor Cook Ponzi scheme, Patrick Kiley was busy shutting down his part of the business and trying to secure cash, said witnesses at his fraud trial.
05/23/12 Minneapolis council member: Send stadium bill back to... Source: MinnPost - Minneapolis MN Maverick Minneapolis Council Member Gary Schiff still hasn't got the memo about the Vikings stadium.