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Lifestyle

What is a pyramid scheme?

The Federal Trade Commission describes it as a scam in which people within the pyramid are more likely to profit off the purchases or payments each recruit is required to make than they are off the sale of the actual product or venture being sold.

Money

Ghosn says he is aiding those who helped him flee to Lebanon

Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn refused to comment on allegations from prosecutors in the U.S., who said last week that he wired more than $860,000 to a company linked to one of the men accused of helping smuggle him out of Japan in a box in December.