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A while back, the Atlanta-based journalist Ashley Fonce was invited to speak at the University of Georgia's

Journalism School about her 25 years of investigative reporting. After the talk, some students

came up with questions, as they sometimes do at the end of lectures they actually find

interesting. One of them had a tip for Ashley. There was a kid who told me that there was a frat guy who had run a multimillion-dollar Ponzi

scheme out of his frat house. And I thought, wow, that sounds pretty crazy.

Ashley made a mental note of it, and later, when she had some time, did some poking around to see if this frat guy Ponzi scheme had been covered.

There had been some scant media coverage of it, but I really wanted to dive in deep, and I honestly thought there is no way in hell that I'm going to be able to reach this guy.

The guy in question was named Syed Arbob.

And by this point, he had been charged, convicted, and already served his term for the

crime of taking more than $1 million from 117 victims in a scheme where he claimed to be

investing their money in a hedge fund.

But he was actually spending it on his own relatively lavish lifestyle.

He's fresh by that point out of federal prison,

and there's no way he's going to talk to a reporter.

On that point, Ashley was wrong.

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