Matt Levine, Columnist

Multiplication, Gaming and Writing

Also climate change, artificial intelligence, blockchains and Uber.

June 1, 2017 at 9:17 AM EDT

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Scamilton II.

Yesterday was my birthday, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York got me an amazing present, this alleged Ponzi scheme in which a former math teacher named Jason Nissen allegedly scammed several big investors out of $70 million by falsely claiming that he was using their money to buy and resell tickets to "Hamilton" and other events. It should not be confused with the alleged Ponzi scheme from earlier this year in which the operators allegedly scammed several big investors out of $81 million by falsely claiming that they were using their money to buy and resell tickets to "Hamilton" and other events. That case was fine, but it's now distinctly the second-best eight-figure fake-"Hamilton"-tickets scam of 2017.

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