Inside Wealth-Conference Con Man Anthony Ritossa’s Wild Web of Lies

“The scale of what he’s done is staggering,” explained Ari Mello, an American entrepreneur who attended three summits in Dubai. “Ritossa has bullshitted thousands of people.… In my case, I lost a lot of money.” (His estimate: well over $50,000.) By April, he began comparing notes with other conferencegoers, complaining to an acquaintance in a private LinkedIn message that “Many of the people attending are veterans of the Ritossa circuit, which has proven to be a giant fraud.…” When Ritossa heard about the exchange, his Dubai lawyer—the one who had tried to intimidate Graham David Bell—threatened Mello with civil and… Read Full Article