{"id":188925,"date":"2026-03-12T17:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188925\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T17:06:08","slug":"orlando-businessman-accused-of-running-ponzi-scheme-facing-class-action-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188925\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando businessman accused of running Ponzi scheme facing class action lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA federal class action lawsuit has been filed against a businessman accused of running a Ponzi scheme. The Justice Department says Christopher Delgado scammed investors out of $328 million through his Orlando company, Goliath Ventures.The feds said Delgado would get people to invest large sums of money, promising them monthly returns from what they called &#8220;Cryptocurrency liquidity pools.&#8221;He&#8217;s now out of jail after posting a $1 million bond.The class action complaint was filed by T &amp; C Investing Corp and claims Delgado&#8217;s online portal for reporting was fraudulent and that he used the investment funds for person items. &#8220;During the period it was making investments, T &amp; C was never informed of the true nature of how Goliath and Delgado were using its money. Had it known the truth, T &amp; C never would have invested in Goliath,&#8221; the lawsuit states. T &amp; C is requesting a jury trial. &gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A federal class action lawsuit has been filed against a businessman accused of running a Ponzi scheme. <\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department says Christopher Delgado scammed investors out of $328 million through his Orlando company, Goliath Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The feds said Delgado would get people to invest large sums of money, promising them monthly returns from what they called &#8220;Cryptocurrency liquidity pools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now out of jail after posting a $1 million bond.<\/p>\n<p>The class action complaint was filed by T &amp; C Investing Corp and claims Delgado&#8217;s online portal for reporting was fraudulent and that he used the investment funds for person items. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the period it was making investments, T &amp; C was never informed of the true nature of how Goliath and Delgado were using its money. Had it known the truth, T &amp; C never would have invested in Goliath,&#8221; the lawsuit states. <\/p>\n<p>T &amp; C is requesting a jury trial. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt; This is a developing story and will be updated <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal class action lawsuit has been filed against a businessman accused of running a Ponzi scheme. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[88456,80200,69264,88455,80201,88453,33636,81435,2159,46973,139,88454,141,140,992,24818,88457,30924],"class_list":["post-188925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-c-investing-corp","tag-christopher-delgado","tag-class-action-lawsuit","tag-fed","tag-goliath-ventures","tag-investment-fund","tag-justice-department","tag-large-sum","tag-money","tag-online-portal","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-businessman","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-people","tag-ponzi-scheme","tag-reporting","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}