Steven Hoffenberg
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Steven Hoffenberg
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Steven Jude Hoffenberg was an American businessman and fraudster. He was the founder, CEO, president, and chairman of Towers Financial Corporation, a debt collection agency, which was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme. In 1993, he rescued the New York Post from bankruptcy, and briefly owned the paper. Towers Financial collapsed in 1993, and in 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, plus a $1 million fine and $463 milli
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American businessman and fraudster (1945–2022)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg
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2024-04-02T17:02:57Z
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