The USA possesses very restrictive rules regarding the funding of projects in order to make sure that the common man does not get pulled into some sort of pyramid scheme.
The irony here is that the MLM type of projects are becoming the only projects USA folks can get involved in!
So they are being driven to higher risk propositions.
The founders of these high risk projects find ways to remain anonymous, and this mystery is being accepted by investors, who understand that anonymity is a must, in order to avoid long armed crack-downs, in which case the U.S. would steal everybody's money, as it did with BTC-e. As such, anonymous ponzi authors are trusted more than US alphabet agencies.