Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: Woodbridge Structured Funding LLC/ Woodbridge Wealth
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Structured settlement receivables were often falsely promoted as annuities by those with no insurance, financial advisory or securities licenses, operating in a gray area. A decade on, legal cases reveal a growing body of victims bubbling to the surface like coffins in a flood.
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40% of investors in factored structured settlement payments are hedge funds, 50% are life insurance companies and 10% individual investors. Would an audit shown rhedge funds and life insurers are profiting from some of the worst cases of financial rape of minorities, and retirees?
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Woodbridge Structured Funding was the arm of Woodbridge that involved factoring of structured settlement payment rights. As far as we can tell, the Shapiro Ponzi scheme has raised concern, but in the end has not impacted investors in structured settlement payment rights sold to them by Woodbridge.
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Robert Shapiro is in custody and faces sentencing October 15, 2019. Considering the similarities in size between the Ponzi schemes of Scott Rothstein and Robert Shapiro, one wonders why Shapiro is up for a maximum 25 years, a quarter of a century less than Scott Rothstein.
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The seniors were not accredited investors. They invested under $100,000 in the Woodbridge scheme. They’re skeptical that they will receive full recovery and it breaks ones heart to hear the wife say they wonder if they will live long enough to see a recovery. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be.
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The SEC action against Robert H. Shapiro of Woodbridge Structured Funding, a structured settlement factoring alleges that Shapiro through his various entities, allegedly ripped off 2,600 seniors as part of a close to $1 billion Ponzi scheme. Soon to be seen on a future episode of American Greed?
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The United States District Court, Southern District in Miami, found Robert Shapiro, his wife and various named entities owned by Shapiro responsible for paying $892 million to the SEC. The fines will go to a “fair fund” that will be used to help compensate the victims of $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.
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In December 2017, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued luxury real estate developer Robert Shapiro and his Woodbridge Group of Companies, which included Woodbridge Structured Funding LLC for allegedly operating a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme targeting thousands of investors.
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How is it that a felon, barred from FINRA, who in 2002 pled guilty to a felony and served prison time for wire fraud for selling non existent vending machines before a Federal Judge is able to thumb his nose at FINRA, punctuating the thumb-nosing with an office right on effing Wall Street?
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The SEC complaint alleges the Defendants used investors’ money to pay other investors, pitched as “low risk” and “conservative.” A named Defendants is Woodbridge Structured Funding, LLC, which bought structured settlement payment rights and sold them to investors.