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The $212,000 payment that kept his Ponzi running - then stopped

Nicholas Cosmo stands in a Long Island sports complex bought with investor cash - how did it get this far?

The $212,000 payment that kept his Ponzi running - then stopped

In this episode, we lay out the building blocks of the Agape World story: the property purchase, the salesforce, the bookkeeping, and the three numbers prosecutors focused on. What choices and shortcuts let a bridge-lending pitch mask a vast shortfall in actual loans?

Person: Nicholas Cosmo

Location: Hauppauge / Hicksville, Long Island, New York

Event: Purchase and renovation of sports facility converted from a paintball…

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