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A Hollywood movie producer with credits on "Joker" and "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" was charged this week with running a $100 million Ponzi scheme that ensnared several Illinois investors, the Department of Justice announced. Jason Cloth, 60, of Beverly Hills, was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles and appeared in court there on seven counts of wire fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros of the Northern District of Illinois. The indictment, filed in Illinois, was unsealed Tuesday. Cloth operated Canada-based Creative Wealth Media Finance Corp. and, for the past seve...
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A Hollywood movie producer with credits on "Joker" and "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" was charged this week with running a $100 million Ponzi scheme that ensnared several Illinois investors, the Department of Justice announced. Jason Cloth, 60, of Beverly Hills, was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles and appeared in court there on seven counts of wire fraud, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros of the Northern District of Illinois. The indictment, filed in Illinois, was unsealed Tuesday. Cloth operated Canada-based Creative Wealth Media Finance Corp. and, for the past seve...
Read this reportThe new charges come two years after another fraud accusation stemming from an NBA draft documentary
Read this reportFederal prosecutors accuse Cloth of diverting funds meant for films and TV shows to other purposes, including to repay prior investors.
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Jason Cloth, a film producer with dozens of credits including Joker, Longlegs and Babylon, is facing numerous federal fraud charges and decades in prison in connection with a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of more than $100 million. Prosecutors say that Cloth, 60, of Beverly Hills, and his Toronto-based Creative Wealth Media Finance Corp. solicited […]
Read this reportA Hollywood movie producer was arrested this week after federal prosecutors in Illinois charged him with defrauding investors of more than $100 million in an alleged Ponzi scheme.
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AIPROPX has consolidated 6 reports from 5 outlets into a single canonical entry on “Hollywood producer arrested over alleged $100 million Ponzi scheme.” The covered outlets are based across 3 regions — Other, UK, and US.
The earliest report in this entry came from ABC7 Los Angeles (Jul 29, 2026, 19:28 UTC); the most recent came from Chicago Sun-Times (Jul 29, 2026, 21:49 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 8 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “ponzi scheme”.
7 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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