San Francisco author Stephen Beachy describes his new novel as “collaborative.” The exact number of collaborators is uncertain, but Beachy will be the first to tell you that one of them is Jake Yoder, ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil injunction action charging a 77-year-old Amish man from the village of Sugarcreek, Ohio, with targeting his fellow Amish as investors in a ...

When alleged Ponzi schemer Monroe Beachy sought refuge in bankruptcy court last year, many of his investors and fellow members of the Amish community complained that their deeply held religious ...

The personal assets of Monroe L. Beachy, a 77-year-old Amish man, included a horse, buggy and harness. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, his skills included financial fraud. Beachy ...

The easy analogy is to the crimes of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff. But the story of Monroe Beachy, a 77-year-old Amish man from Ohio who over... The easy analogy is to the crimes of Ponzi schemer ...

Yes, even some individuals in the the Amish community are facing financial troubles. According to a WKSU News report from Kevin Niedermier, a 77-year-old Amish man named Monroe Beachy "defrauded ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) – An Amish man who managed investments for members of his religious community in 29 states was sentenced to more than six years in prison Wednesday for defrauding them out of ...

Update: Monroe Beachy, the Amish Bernie Madoff, wants to plead no contest based on religious grounds to charges that he defrauded investors out of millions of dollars, according to the AP. Even his ...

CLEVELAND (CN) - A 77-year-old man defrauded fellow members of the Amish community of tens of millions of dollars, the SEC says. Monroe Beachy dba A&M Investments raised $33 million on phony pretenses ...