Steven Hoffenberg
American fraudster · United States · On the map · Lived 1945 to 2022 · aged 77
Steven Jude Hoffenberg was an American businessman and fraudster. He was the founder, CEO, president, and chairman of Towers Financial Corporation, a debt collection agency, which was later discovered to be a Ponzi scheme.
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In 1993, he rescued the New York Post from bankruptcy, and briefly managed the paper while its affairs were in bankruptcy court. Towers Financial collapsed in 1993, and in 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, plus a $1 million fine and $463 million in restitution. The U.S. SEC considered his financial crimes to be "one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history".