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‘Smart Rings’ CEO Found Guilty of Running $2 Million Ponzi Scheme

The CEO of a wearable technology company has been found guilty by a jury of running a near-$2 million Ponzi scheme by duping investors through lies that she owned “smart rings” patents that rightfully belonged to her former employer, and of fraudulently obtaining $150,000 in COVID-19 pandemic business-relief loans, the Justice Department announced today.

What happened

The CEO of a wearable technology company has been found guilty by a jury of running a near-$2 million Ponzi scheme by duping investors through lies that she owned “smart rings” patents that rightfully belonged to her former employer, and of fraudulently obtaining $150,000 in COVID-19 pandemic business-relief loans, the Justice Department announced today.

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  1. U.S. Department of JusticePrimary source · Supports · EN · 100%
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Confidence · formula confidence-2.1.0
Source trust97
Independent corroboration51
Primary evidence100
Claim consistency82
Extraction confidence82
Attribution quality90
Impact · formula impact-2.1.0
Event magnitude76
Market relevance88
Entity significance42
Market breadth45
Novelty68
Urgency76
capital magnitude96
Ranking · formula rank-1.0.0
Confidence factor0.9235
Freshness factor0.912
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