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The billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that hooked Warren Buffet & the U.S. Treasury

52 mins | May 10, 2023
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Jeff Carpoff was once a small-town auto mechanic peddling what seemed to be a solar-energy breakthrough. So how did he swindle Wall Street investors, the U.S. Treasury, and even Warren Buffett out of $1 billion dollars? Ariel Sabar brings you this extraordinary story.

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