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The Fort Hood Shooting and the White Privilege of Disassociation

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: James Von Brunn, Muslims, South Asia, Fort Hood, Timothy McVeigh, Bernie Madoff, White Privilege, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

The Fort Hood shootings no more reflect on the whole of Islam or South Asians than Timothy McVeigh or James Von Brunn reflect on white, Christian males.

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The Death of a Witness and the Silencing of the Scam

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Picower Drowned, Jeffry Picower, Bernie Madoff, Business News
Edward Jay Epstein

Jeffry Picower's untimely death left in limbo, if not totally silenced, crucial questions about the role he played in what may be the greatest disappearance act in the annals of financial history.

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The Most Scandalous White-Collar Cases Of 2009 (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Raj Rajaratnam, Marc Dreier, White Collar Crime, Madoff, Allen Stanford, Blagojevich, Slidehuge, Robert Greenwood, Stephen Walsh, Slidepoll, Anthony Marshall, 2009 Crime, Bernie Madoff, Business News

Bernie Madoff is only one of the white-collar offenders exposed this year for bilking the country out of millions. Whether stealing from dying family...

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Madoff Auditor: I Wasn't Aware Of Bernie's Fraud

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: David Friehling Fraud, Ponzi Scheme, David Friehling, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Auditor, Business News

NEW YORK — Bernard Madoff's longtime auditor pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges Tuesday, saying he failed to do his job to verify the disgra...

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Is the Morality Gene Missing?

Dan Solin | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Patricia Cornwell, Sec, Insider Trading, Galleon Group, Raj Rajaratnam, Bernie Madoff, Financial Reform, Business News
Dan Solin

The news reinforces my belief that there is something rotten at the core of the financial services industry. I am not discussing old news like Bernie Madoff. Here are some items that crossed my desk this week.

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Fred Wilpon, Mets Owner, Made Money Off Bernie Madoff

nypost.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Sterling Equities Real-Estate, New York Mets, Irving Picard, Fred Wilpon Money Mets, Bernie Madoff Victims, Mets Limited Partnership, Fred Wilpon, Bernard Madoff, Bernie Madoff, New York News

Talk about getting caught in a jam. After watching his team go down to defeat this season, Mets owner Fred Wilpon now faces potential "clawback" suit...

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Bernie Madoff Eats Pizza Cooked By Child Molester, Spends Time With Convicted Spy Jonathan Pollard: Lawsuit

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Jonathan Pollard, Lower Bunk, Bernie Madoff Prison, Bernard Madoff, Child Molester, Carmine Persico, Pizza, Butner Federal Correctional Complex, Bernie Madoff, New York News

NEW YORK — Fallen financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender a...

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What Do You Hold On to for Security?

Hillary Rubin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Awareness, Yoga, Saving Money, Saving for Retirement, Bernie Madoff, Retirement, Health, Living News
Hillary Rubin

A few weeks back I was in a weekend workshop with some incredible people. Over lunch one of the men that was sitting at the table began to talk about ...

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Two Madoff Victims File Lawsuit Against The SEC

Reuters | Tom Hals | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff, Security and Exchange Commission, Bernie Madoff Victims, Sec, Madoff Victims, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Business News

Two victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, seeking at leas...

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Madoff In Prison Fight Over Stock Market: Report

Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Prison Fight, Bernard Madoff, Butner North Carolina, Madoff, Bernie Madoff, Business News

For all of his billions in faked profits, convicted Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff recently got into a very real fight with a fellow inmate over the stoc...

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The Madoff Victims Who Came to Dinner

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business

Read More: New York City Restaurants, Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Madoff Victims, Madoff Victims, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Nino Selimaj offered Madoff's victims free meals for an entire week at one of his seven city Nino's restaurants where the average dinner check, with wine, runs between $85 and $95 per person.

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The Big Secret Wealthy Investors Don't Want You to Know

Dan Solin | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Bear Stearns, Investments, Bernie Madoff, Hedge Funds, Wealth Management, Ubs, Business News
Dan Solin

Wealthy investors can be enticed to buy "alternative investments" like hedge funds and private equity deals. How is that working for them? Not well.

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Oct. 5, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: David Letterman, Comcast Acquisition Nbc, Lamaor Odom Khloe Kardashian Marriage, New York City Election, Roman Polanski, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago, Bernie Madoff, President Obama Copenhagen, Politics News
Richard Valeriani

Entertainment headlines dominate week, thanks to Letterman and Polanski. Will Letterman's philandering help or hurt ratings? Will Polanski be extradited to US? Inquiring minds want to know.

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Chen Wenling's Bernie Madoff Art: Wall Street Villain Pinned To Wall By Bull

Posted 09.30.2009 | New York

Read More: Chen Wenling, Bull Market, Chinese Artist, What You See Might Not Be Real, Madoff Art, Farting Bull, Joy Art Gallery, Bernie Madoff Painting, Emergency Escape, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Impaled, New York News

The latest Bernie Madoff-inspired art was displayed at a Beijing art gallery on Sunday. "What You see Might Not Be Real," by Chen Wenling depicts the...

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Dalton Chiscolm Lawsuit: Man Sues Bank Of America For "1,784 BILLION, TRILLION Dollars"

Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Denny Chin, Bank of America, Bernie Madoff, Dalton Chiscolm, Business News

If Dalton Chiscolm has anything to say about it, Bank Of America may need another bailout. Chiscolm is suing the bank for '1,784 billion trillion doll...

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Half Of Madoff Clients Technically Made Money

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Accounts Profit, Madoff, Madof Customers, Madoff Trial, Bernard Madoff, Madoff-Prosecution, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Customers Profit, Madoff Customers Money, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Madoff Accounts, Business News

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that a review of most accounts held by financier Bernard Madoff's customers when he was arrested sho...

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Sculpture From Madoff's Beach Home Missing

AP | Posted 09.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Montauk, Madoff Beach Home, Madoff, Madoff Sculpture, Bernie Madoff, Business News

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Four Questions About Obama's Financial Reforms

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 09.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Sec, Bernie Madoff, Financial Reform, Financial Regulation, Business News
Eric Schurenberg

Pitting bureaucrats on government salaries against the most highly compensated people in the U.S. is a bit like sending cops with .38s onto the street against gangs armed with automatic weapons.

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Denny Chin, Judge In Bernie Madoff Trial, To Be Nominated To Appeals Court

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Appeals Court, Bernie Madoff Prison, Judge Denny Chin, 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals, Bernie Madoff, Sonia Sotomayor, New York News

NEW YORK — The White House plans to nominate the judge who presided over the Bernard Madoff case to the appeals court that Supreme Court Justice...

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Judges Punish Wall Street as Regulators Just Talk About Reform

Bloomberg | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Wall Street Corruption, Judge Denny Chin, Wall Street Crisis, Judges, Shira Scheindlin, Financial Crisis, Arthur M. Schack, Wall Street, Bernie Madoff, New York News

As the White House and Congress debate how to regulate financial firms to avoid another economic crisis, judges have assumed the point position in pun...

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Bernie Madoff's Manhattan Penthouse Up For Sale (VIDEO)

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.09.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Madoff Penthouse, Video, Madoff Video, Madoff House, Bernard Madoff, NY Real Estate, Us Marshalls, Bernie Madoff, NYC Real Estate, New York News

NEW YORK (AP) -- It's where Bernard Madoff broke down and confessed to his massive fraud, frantically wrote checks for millions of dollars as the sche...

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Practical Economics 101

Jim Selman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: The Beatles, Freshwater Economists, Economics, Enron, New York Times, Bill Gates, Worldview, Technocrat, Saltwater Economists, Bernie Madoff, Arthur Anderson, paul_krugman, Neo-Keynesian, Living News
Jim Selman

Can any of us afford the arrogance to operate as if our point of view is the truth?

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Family of SEC Official Whose Unit Got Madoff Tip Lost $2 Million In Scam

bloomberg.com | David Scheer and Joshua Gallu | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: David Kotz, Madoff, Madoff Scam, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bernie Madoff, Business News

Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Family members of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement official, whose unit got a tip in 2005 that Bernard Mad...

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SEC's Tough Talk Won't Stop Madoff Flim Flams

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Industry, Senate, Congress, Sec, President Obama, Mary Schapiro, Pequot Capital, Madoff Scams, Bernie Madoff, Wall Street, Financial Regulation, Business News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Ensuring there's no more Madoff type shenanigans has less to do with the SEC having more money, more staff, and more rules than with having the political will to crack the whip on the Wall Street.

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Madoff Books A Bust: Mistress' Small-Penis Memoir Sells Just 2,000

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Madoff Books, Bernie's Other Secret, Sheryl Weinstein Bernie Madoff, Sheryl Weinstein, Bernie Madoff, Media News

NEW YORK — Sex and scandal have not been enough to make major sellers out of books about Bernard Madoff. According to Nielsen BookScan, neither...

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