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The contractor kept coming back after the house was sold

A Naples man was sentenced to four years for draining $1.26 million from an elderly Hurricane Ian victim through a contractor scheme that kept running after her husband died, after she sold the house, after she moved into assisted living.

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The Eight Percent Fund paid eight percent. Until the day it paid nothing.

For three decades, Miles Burton Marshall did taxes for his neighbors in Hamilton, New York, and sold them shares in something he called the Eight Percent Fund. On June 11, 2026, a judge entered $85 million in judgments against him for 988 people who thought they had savings.

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The word he used was safe. The fund was a coffee shop, a mine, and a Ponzi.

Vincent Camarda built A.G. Morgan Financial Advisors in a Massapequa storefront and steered at least $138 million of his clients' retirement money into a Philadelphia Ponzi, a western mining bet, and his son's coffee startup. On April 3, 2026, he pleaded guilty.

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