Gotta read this!!-----The Billion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Wall Street, Warren Buffett, and the U.S. Treasury - The Atlantic

The Billion-Dollar Ponzi Scheme That Hooked Wall Street, Warren Buffett, and the U.S. Treasury - The Atlantic

• How a small-town auto mechanic peddling a green-energy breakthrough pulled off a massive scam - By Ariel Sabar

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Jeff Carpoff was a good mechanic. 

But as a businessman, he struggled. 

In the two decades since high school, he’d lost one repair shop after another, filed for personal bankruptcy, and watched a lender foreclose on the small house in a California refinery town where he’d lived with his wife and two young kids. 

• By 2007, he was 36, jobless, and adrift.
• Yet there, at his life’s lowest, the remarkable happened...