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  • Two decades ago, he served seven years in jail for convincing investors to put hundreds of millions of dollars into a fake carpet-cleaning company based in Southern California known as ZZZZ Best.

    Minkow Sentenced to 5 Years Robbie Whelan 2011

  • It was an ignominious turn for Mr. Minkow, 45 years old, who became a stock-fraud investigator only after serving seven years in prison on a 1988 stock-fraud conviction for bilking investors out of tens of millions of dollars through a phony carpet-cleaning company called ZZZZ Best.

    Guilty Plea Ends Tale of Redemption Robbie Whelan 2011

  • "ZZZZ" and used a fake logo, so we could develop the entire software stack (and build pre-release hardware) without knowing the actual product name.

    MSDN Blogs andypennell 2010

  • The crowd is a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reveres those who have been fans forever; who were actually there when XXXX did YYYY to ZZZZ; those who know all the stats and the history; and who have been there through thick and thin.

    Expression 2010

  • Minkow was convicted of defrauding investors through his ZZZZ Best carpet cleaning company in the 1980s.

    ZZZZ Best's Barry Minkow in hot water again 2011

  • Mr. Minkow was best known in the 1980s for masterminding a Ponzi scheme involving his carpet-cleaning company, ZZZZ Best, which he founded at age 16 and eventually built into a public company.

    Minkow to Plead Guilty in Lennar Insider-Trading Case Robbie Whelan 2011

  • Bloomberg News Barry Minkow, of ZZZZ Best fame, became a pastor/fraud investigator.

    Minkow to Plead Guilty in Lennar Insider-Trading Case Robbie Whelan 2011

  • The crowd is a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reveres those who have been fans forever; who were actually there when XXXX did YYYY to ZZZZ; those who know all the stats and the history; and who have been there through thick and thin.

    Marketing 2010

  • Barry Minkow, the ZZZZ Best fraud figure who became a financial-fraud investigator, will plead guilty to insider trading involving Lennar.

    What's News: Business & Finance 2011

  • In 1988, at age 21, Mr. Minkow was convicted of stock fraud in connection with the ZZZZ Best scandal, in which Mr. Minkow swindled investors out of tens of millions of dollars by convincing them to invest in his carpet-cleaning business, which was actually a Ponzi scheme.

    Barry Minkow To Be Charged with Conspiracy Robbie Whelan 2011

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