That's one possible explanation. I'd like to offer another...there weren't billions of dollars. That "fact" came from their website. Along with the P&L from th

That's one possible explanation. I'd like to offer another...there weren't billions of dollars. That "fact" came from their website. Along with the P&L from their trading and the endorsements. What makes you think that the rest is fake and that bit isn't? They probably had a few million across a dozen accounts in half a dozen countries. Well worth setting up a scam but hardly Bernie Madoff. And even if it was more serious money, they weren't actually investing it so they only needed to keep enough around to Ponzi returns until the scrutiny got too much.