The suit accuses them of swindling 69 people, most of them elderly, out of more than $3.8 million in a promissory-note scheme that included making investments in petroleum, entertainment, technology and transportation companies.
But officials said this case also underlined some of the difficulties they have had in prosecuting promissory-note schemes.
The particularly insidious element of the promissory-note schemes, the authorities say, is that the elderly are often defrauded by people with whom they have successfully done business in the past.
As one interviewee noted, "schemes are malleable post implementation…[it has] a controversial typology and is ad hoc" (UK Researcher 4).
A little-known group (which prefers to be low-profile) called the Note Circulation Scheme (NCS) handles the physical distribution of cash notes in the UK.
Fig. 1 Note extraction scheme.
In this note a scheme for the collection, phase rotation and cooling of muons for a neutrino factory is reported.
The statement went onto note, "This scheme is a unique opportunity to fit a state-of-the-art nightclub seamlessly alongside modern homes, both of which are key to Wolstenholme Square's long-term competitiveness and appeal.
In this context, please note in scheme 1 that in the state in which the activity of reactivated enzymes is constant, the existent dimers are in equilibrium with folded monomers (steps 2 and 3 in reaction sequence I).
