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In this age of instant access to information on the Internet, including do-it-yourself estate planning documents, it is important to remember that the devil is in the details. Examples on point: a recent email exchange among estate planning attorneys from around the country describing potentially painful prose:
Another name has been added to the wall of infamy of persons who have preyed on the unsuspecting with promises of fabulous investment returns: Frank A. Castaldi, who operated a fraudulent scheme from the 1980's to 2008, costing investors $40 million, and had the appeal of his sentence of 23 years in prison rejected by a Federal Appeals Court on February 24, 2014. He joins many who have chosen to rob Peter to pay Paul, including: Charles Ponzi, 1920's, $20 million, sentenced to 17 years in prison; Bernard Madoff, 1970's > 2008, $18 billion, sentenced to 150 years in prison; and Robert A. Stanford, 1990's > 2009, $7 billion, sentenced to 110 years.