Several lawsuits were filed by investors who claimed they were defrauded. Two women whom he had defrauded in this way sued him and won their cases. The Madoff investment scandal defrauded thousands of investors of billions of dollars. Some 23,000 Lincoln bondholders were defrauded and many investors lost their life savings. In Sierra Leone investigations of Qnet were demanded by IRs claiming they had been defrauded. He claimed that officers had defrauded him and charges were dropped. She furthermore alleged that he defrauded his followers to maintain a rich lifestyle for himself. These efforts are premised on the allegations that they were defrauded. According to the indictment, investors and doctors and patients were defrauded. The organization claimed that he had defrauded US$70,000 due to the cancellation. Companies going public and their initial consumer stockholders are both defrauded by this practice. During his tenure as chief executive, the company defrauded Medicare, Medicaid and other federal programs. Fields argued that by withholding the side letter, Cimino defrauded the producers. They also defrauded insurance companies by staging fake accidents. Hale was himself under investigation for having defrauded the SBA out of $3.2 million.