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Charlotte Attorney Working To Recover Siskey Ponzi Scheme Funds For Investors

Michael Tomsic

It’s been a little over a year since federal investigators caught up to Charlotte businessman Rick Siskey and the Ponzi scheme he was running. He committed suicide a few days after court filings indicated that he was under investigation.

Investors are owed about $50 million. Charlotte attorney Charles Monnett is trying to get some of that money back for his clients who are victims of Siskey’s fraud and talked to WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn about his efforts.

Mr. Monnett represents some victims of the Ponzi scheme run by Rick Siskey. Federal investigators uncovered the fraud in late 2016. Siskey killed himself a few days later. 

Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.