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Tiger, Letterman, Madoff And More: Eight Lessons From The Decade's Biggest Flameouts

Robbie Vorhaus | Posted 12.16.2009 | Books

Read More: Letterman, Mark Sanford, Olympics, Balloon Boy, George W. Bush, Slidepoll, Mistress, Katrina, College Football, Scandal, Eliot Spitzer, Michael Phelps, Bestsellers, Wall Street, Madoff, James Frey, Tiger Woods, John Edwards, Bernard Madoff, Iraq, Bernie Kerik, David Letterman, Books News
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ACLU Loses $20 Million Donor, Said To Be David Gelbaum

New | STEPHANIE STROM | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Civil Liberties, Sierra Club, Philanthrophy, Quercus Trust, Madoff, Economy, David Gelbaum, Religious Freedom, Equal Rights, Funding, Anonymous Donor, Quercus, Open Society Institute, Politics News

A longtime anonymous donor to the American Civil Liberties Union has withdrawn his annual gift of more than $20 million, punching a 25 percent hole in...

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Dubai Completes 110 Story Middle Finger!

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.29.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Dubai, Bad Loans, Banks, Madoff, Default, Economy, Banking, Banking Crisis, Stock Market, Ben Bernanke, Burg Dubai, Comedy News
Tom Gregory

Visible from space, Dubai has completed construction of the World's largest structure, the 110 story "Burj Dubai Middle Finger Tower."

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Jerome O'Hara And George Perez: Ex-Madoff Programmers ARRESTED For Alleged Cover-Up

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Arrests, Jerome O'Hara, Madoff, Madoff Programmers, Jerome Ohara, Maddoff IT Staff, Sec, Madoff Coders, Ex-Madoff Programmers, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, George Perez, Jerome O'hara and George Perez, Business News

NEW YORK — Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's m...

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Madoff's Homes Get HUGE Price Cuts (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Montauk Home, Madoff, Madoff Real Estate, Slidepoll, Madoff Palm Beach Home, Slideshow, Madoff New York City Apartment, Madoff Homes, Bernie Madoff, Business News

We all know it's a bad time for real estate. But even the luxury homes formerly owned by jailed financier Bernard Madoff are having a tough time selli...

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

Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 11.11.2009 | 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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The $21.2 Billion Halloween Mask

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Sec, Top Producer, Private Wealth Management, Madoff, Financial Scandal, Norb Vonnegut, Acrimoney, Business News
Norb Vonnegut

The season makes me wonder: What does it take to become a Halloween mask?

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Jeffry Picower Dead: Madoff Friend Found At Bottom Of Pool

AP | BRIAN SKOLOFF | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Palm Beach, Sec, Florida, Crime, Madoff, Philanthropy, Picower Drowned, Picower Drowns, New York, Fraud, Picower Dead, Wall Street, Ponzi Scheme, Picower Dies, Jeffry Picower, Business News

PALM BEACH, Fla. — Jeffry Picower, a philanthropist accused of profiting more than $7 billion from the investment schemes of his longtime friend...

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Madoff's Long Island Home Sells For $9.41M

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Bernard Madoff, Bernard Madoff Home, Long Island, Madoff Beach House, Madoff, Bernard Madoff Long Island House, Business News

NEW YORK — Federal marshals say Bernard Madoff's Long Island beach house has sold for $9.41 million. The U.S. Marshals Service put the 3,000-sq...

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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 Narcissistic Ego and Vampire Economy

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Offshore Bank Accounts, Vampire, Narcissism, Financial Crisis, Bubble, Madoff, Polanski, Economy, Business News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

There are simply more and more narcissists than there were a few decades ago. There is less community and more selfishness, and it will affect how quickly we come out of this financial crisis.

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Madoff Trustee Irving Picard: Let Madoff's Sons Go Bankrupt (VIDEO)

Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Victims, Mark and Andrew Madoff, Irving Picard, Madoff, Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Business News

The man in charge of unwinding Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi Scheme appeared on 60 Minutes last night, in one of his first major public appearances. (...

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Half Of Madoff Clients Technically Made Money

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.23.2009 | 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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Michael Moore: Madoff's Prison Should Host A Viewing Of "Capitalism"

nydailynews.com | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Prison, Capitalism: A Love Story, Butner Federal Correctional Complex, Madoff, Michael Moore, Business News

IIf Michael Moore had his way, the next screening of his newest documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story," would be at the Butner (N.C.) Federal Correct...

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Mark Foley: Disgraced Former GOP Congressman Makes Radio Debut

AP | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Mark Foley, Sec, Radio Debut, Conservative Radio, Mark Foley Radio Show, Sex, Madoff, Scandal, Politics, Radio Show, Radio Host, Congress, Email, Republican, Palm Beach County, Gay, Instant Messages, U.S. House, Mark Foley Radio, Inside the Mind of Mark Foley, Mark Foly, Politics News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley began his new career on a Florida political talk radio, three years after a lurid scandal ru...

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California's Own Bernie Madoff

Jerry Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business

Read More: California AG, Chais Victims, California, Investment, Madoff, Attorney General, Jerry Brown, Deregulation, Ponzi Scheme, Regulation, Bernard Madoff, Stanley Chais, Investor, Los Angeles, Chais Scheme, Business News
Jerry Brown

Some called Beverly Hills financial adviser Stanley Chais an investment wizard, but in reality he was nothing more than a glorified middleman, channeling hundreds of millions of dollars in investors' funds to Bernie Madoff in New York.

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Sculpture From Madoff's Beach Home Missing

AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

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

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SEC Officials Promise Changes After Madoff Failure

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

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Madoff Caught On Tape Coaching Witness To Fool SEC (AUDIO, TRANSCRIPT)

Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff on Tape, Madoff Fooling SEC, Madoff William Galvin, Madoff, Madoff Transcript, Business News

As the AP reports, in 2005 Bernie Madoff was actually caught on tape coaching an employee at Fairfield-Greenwich Advisors in the fine art of fooling t...

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Madoff's Properties In NYC, Florida For Sale (PHOTOS)

AP | TOM HAYS and CURT ANDERSON | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Montauk, Madoff Florida, Madoff, Madoff Boat, Madoff Real Estate, Slidepoll, Palm Beach, Madoff Penthouse Pictures, Madoff Properties Pictures, Photos for Sale, Bernard Madoff, Pictures of Madoff Home, Business News

As the AP reports this morning, Bernard Madoff's luxury real estate - and one infamous boat - are being put up for sale by the U.S government. This in...

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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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The Greatest Financial Scandals

Business Week | Brian Burnsed | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Ponzi, Business Scandals, Madoff Scandal, Financial Scandals, Madoff, Business News

The now infamous dealings of Bernard Madoff, the money manager accused by federal authorities of running a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, have dominated he...

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Madoff Claimed He Was "On The Short List" To Be Next SEC Chairman

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 09.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff SEC, Bernard Madoff, Madoff as SEC Commissioner, Madoff, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Cox, Business News

Bernard Madoff once boasted that he "was on the short list" to be the next chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to a report i...

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SEC Mishandled Multiple Madoff Probes, Report Finds

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Bernard Madoff, Securities and Exchange Commission, Sec Report, Madoff, Bernard Madoff SEC, Business News

WASHINGTON — Pushing past years of "red flags," investigators at the Securities and Exchange Commission bungled their probes of Bernard Madoff s...

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