Tom Petters: Minnesota businessman rose quickly, fell faster (Grand Forks Herald)

15 November 2008, 4:57 am

"I thought that everything he touched turned to gold," said George Wozniak, a Minneapolis travel agency owner who once considered a business deal with Petters. "That's what it looked like." That Wozniak and others saw was an illusion, federal prosecutors say - little more than a Ponzi scheme that somehow endured for at least 14 years and bilked investors of some $3 billion before a troubled ...... Read More »

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