The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a civil injunction action charging a 77-year-old Amish man from the village of Sugarcreek, Ohio, with targeting his fellow Amish as investors in a ...

ARTHUR - If you don't have a phone, your business can't be in the phone book. With no computer, your business can't be on the Internet. It's simple, said Levi Beachy of Beachy's Bulk Foods near Arthur ...

Update: Monroe Beachy, the Amish Bernie Madoff, wants to plead no contest based on religious grounds to charges that he defrauded investors out of millions of dollars, according to the AP. Even his ...

The personal assets of Monroe L. Beachy, a 77-year-old Amish man, included a horse, buggy and harness. According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, his skills included financial fraud. Beachy ...

When alleged Ponzi schemer Monroe Beachy sought refuge in bankruptcy court last year, many of his investors and fellow members of the Amish community complained that their deeply held religious ...

San Francisco author Stephen Beachy describes his new novel as “collaborative.” The exact number of collaborators is uncertain, but Beachy will be the first to tell you that one of them is Jake Yoder, ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) – An Amish man who managed investments for members of his religious community in 29 states was sentenced to more than six years in prison Wednesday for defrauding them out of ...

When Bernie Madoff went down for his ponzi scheme, federal prosecutors seized everything from the Wall Street swindler’s $7 million Manhattan condo to the fur coat off his wife’s back in order to pay ...

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — A federal judge in Ohio has sentenced a man to more than six years in prison for defrauding fellow Amish in 29 states out of nearly $17 million. The sentencing Wednesday comes ...