{
  "id": 10091135,
  "title": "Smart Ring CEO Told Investors Apple Backed Her and Walmart Was Buying. It Was a $2 Million Ponzi Scheme",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/smart-ring-ceo-told-investors-apple-backed-her-and-walmart-was-buying",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-26T23:27:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Inc.",
    "slug": "inc",
    "url": "https://www.inc.com/kevin-haynes/smart-ring-ceo-told-investors-apple-backed-her-and-walmart-was-buying-it-was-a-2-million-ponzi-scheme/91411008"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Michelle Bisnoff was convicted of fraud after using a big-name sales pitch to raise money for a patented ring she didn’t own. Esos Rings sold just 6 on Walmart.com; 3 were returned.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}