From: Richard Kahn Sent: Monday, February 6, 2017 4:11 PM To: Jeffrey Epstein Subject: Fwd: (BN) 'Hamilton' Ponzi Schemers' Victims Said to Include Tudor Jo Looks like there are many not to shrew= billionaires.... =div> 'Hamilton' Ponzi Schemers'=Victims Said to Include Tudor Jones 2017.02-06 10:00:00.17 G=T By Matt Robinson, Kathe=ine Burton, Zeke Faux and Christian Berthelsen (Bloomberg) -- When U.S. authorities busted a P=nzi scheme that centered on marked-up tickets to the hit Br=adway musical "Hamilton" last month, prosec=tors described phone calls about a "big name"=investor who'd demanded his money back. &nbs=; As it turns out, there were several big names -- including billionaires Paul Tudor Jones and Michael Dell, as well as an</=pan> executive at Och-Ziff Capital Management Group -- among the m=re than 125 people who had unwittingly poured cash into the=/span> sprawling scam, according to people with knowledge of the</=pan> matter. The ringlead=rs would approach people and encourage them to put money in=a pool to buy blocks of tickets for the hottest concerts an= plays, the government said. The most prominent was "=amilton," whose popularity pushed prices to the highest inBroadway history. Victims were promised their money back and at least a 10 percent profit. &n=sp;It's rare that any Ponzi scheme ensnares business luminaries so highly skilled in the art of scrutinizing in=estment pitches. But to veteran securities lawyers, the case has some of the hallmarks of an affinity fraud like Bernard Madoff's -- in which a con man's familiarity can help inst=ll trust, even with a pitch that sounds too good to be true= &nbs=; Hamilton Tickets a 'Give=way' 40=9CWhen the promise of a quick buck is being made by someone a former Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement=attorney now in private practice. Still, "the idea t=at there were blocks of Hamilton tickets available for purc=ase should have been a giveaway." &=bsp;