Mississippi Ponzi

The true story of how a Mississippi church deacon and Sunday school teacher squandered over seventeen million dollars by operating an illegal Ponzi scheme and living the good life. Church members, friends, and family lost most of their life savings, and the Ponzi scheme operator was not indicted for almost five years. The story describes the mental anguish of one of the elderly families. After working forty years and saving nickels and dimes, the family confesses their inner feelings of what is like to lose over one million dollars in their elder years and how only their faith held them together.