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1. www.berkeleyside.org › 2021/02/22 › john-foxJohn Fox, who ran the world's largest wine Ponzi scheme from ...

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   Feb 22, 2021 · John E. Fox, who admitted to running a $45 million wine Ponzi scheme from his store, Premier Cru, on University Avenue, will be released from federal custody tomorrow, almost two years earlier than expected. Fox was sentenced in December 2016 to 78 months in prison or 6.5 years.

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3. www.winespectator.com › articles › wine-ponziWine Ponzi Schemer John Fox Released Early from Prison

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   Feb 26, 2021 · Feb 26, 2021. John Fox, the wine shop owner who admitted to conducting a two-decade long, multimillion-dollar wine Ponzi scheme, was released Feb. 23 from North Carolina’s Residential Reentry Management (RRM) Raleigh facility after serving four years of his six-plus year sentence for wire fraud.

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4. www.thedrinksbusiness.com › 2021 › 02Man who ran world's largest wine Ponzi scheme released from ...

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   Feb 24, 2021 · John E. Fox, who admitted to running a US$45 million wine Ponzi scheme through his store, Premier Cru, is scheduled to be released from federal custody this week – a year earlier than...

5. www.bloomberg.com › features › 2016-premier-cru-john-foxThe Disastrous $45 Million Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer

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   Aug 25, 2016 · The Disastrous $45 Million Fall of a High-End Wine Scammer. Premier Cru’s John Fox got his clients rare vintages at deep discounts when they purchased cases on “pre-arrival.” Then a few too...

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6. www.winespectator.com › articles › premier-cru-ownerPremier Cru Owner Sentenced to Six and a ... - Wine Spectator

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   Dec 15, 2016 · Peter Hellman. Dec 15, 2016. John Fox, the wine store proprietor who admitted to conducting a Ponzi scheme for two decades, was sentenced in federal court yesterday to six and a half years in prison. Fox, 66, owner of the bankrupt Premier Cru, stood in a San Francisco court room, shackled at the ankles and wearing dark red prison garb inscribed ...

7. www.fbi.gov › news › storiesWine Ponzi Scheme — FBI

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   Feb 9, 2017 · February 9, 2017. Wine Ponzi Scheme. Long-Running Fraud Cost Victims Millions of Dollars. In 1980, a California man named John E. Fox opened a wine store near San Francisco called Premier...

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   Who is John E Fox?

   • John E. Fox, who admitted to running a US$45 million wine Ponzi scheme through his store, Premier Cru, is scheduled to be released from federal custody this week – a year earlier than expected. Fox was jailed for six-and-a-half years after he admitted to running the wine Ponzi scheme, pleading guilty to a charge of wire fraud.

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   Did John Fox Run a $45 million wine Ponzi scheme?

   • Between 2010 and 2015 alone, according to his plea agreement, Fox sold or caused salespeople at Premier Cru to sell some $20m-worth of wine that did not, in fact, exist. John E. Fox, who admitted to running a $45 million wine Ponzi scheme through his store, Premier Cru, is to be released from federal custody.

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   What happened to Fox wine?

   • What transpired on and off during the next two decades was a massive Ponzi scheme: Fox sold millions of dollars of “phantom” wine that only existed on paper and then used some of the proceeds to pay back previous customers who had invested in his fictitious wine futures.

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   When did John Fox start selling Phantom wines?

   • Fox also agreed to detail his crimes in his plea agreement. He confessed that he’d begun selling what he called phantom wines sometime around 1993 or ’94, selling $20 million worth from 2010 through 2015.

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9. thewinewatcher.com › pages › articlesJohn Fox: The Rise and Fall of a Wine Fraudster

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   Feb 26, 2024 · Convicted wine fraudster John Fox was scheduled to be released from prison on Tuesday after serving about four-and-a-half years of his... John E. Fox, who admitted to running a US$45 million wine Ponzi scheme through his store, Premier Cru, is scheduled to be released from...