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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 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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Health Care Reform Supporters Outnumber Detractors In Florida Town Hall

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Alcee Hastings, Slideshow, Wexler, Obamacare, Town Hall, Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Politics News

Health care reform proponents filled a town hall in Delray Beach, FL today to speak with Reps. Alcee Hastings and Robert Wexler, whose districts both ...

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Summer Is Here! How You Can Avoid the Sun, But Still Have Fun

Yuna Shin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Sunscreen, Sunburn, Sun Safety, Melanoma, American Cancer Society, Skin Cancer Foundation, Skin Cancer, Summer Fun, Swimming, Palm Beach, Sun Safety Guidelines, Living News
Yuna Shin

My dislike of the sun is actually the result of a combination of both the Korean cultural upbringing and the photosensitivity I suffered as a child.

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Denouncing Obama's Desire for Dijon is Downright Dangerous

Sandy Goodman | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elitist, Kraft Foods, Vice President, Boca Java, Palm Beach, President Obama, Rolls Royces, Rush Limbaugh, Secret Service, La Flor Dominicana, Arlington, Hotel George V, Cheeseburgers, Biden, Dijon Mustard, Grey Poupon, Virginia, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, John Kerry, Ray's Hell Burger, Zev Chafets, Alex Balk, Maybach 57S, Eric Alterman, Chevy Suburban SUVs, Mark Steyn, Trevini, Gulfsteam, Versailles, Ditto-Heads, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Democrats are elitist, right-wingers insist, even if they are needy enough to receive not just college, but high school scholarships. In this case, the proof of Obama's elitism was his request for Dijon.

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Ponzi Block Party

Norb Vonnegut | Posted 05.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Clawbacks, Bernard Madoff, Palm Beach, Allen Stanford, Acrimoney, Business News
Norb Vonnegut

The home of the the $23 million, alleged fraudster is less than one minute's walk from the Florida estate of Bernie Madoff.

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Holder, Race and Obama's 10% of the White Alabama Vote

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Brooklyn, George W. Bush, Oregon, Colorado, Race, Missouri, Dc, Eric Holder, Rural Issues, Virginia, New Jersey, Oklahoma, John Kerry, Racism, Republican Party, Mississippi, Suffolk County, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Alabama, Massachusetts, Congress, Kendrick Meek, Minnesota, New York, Barack Obama, Education, Mexican-American Issues, South, Michigan, Arkansas, Tennessee, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Senate, New Orleans, Palm Beach, Morris County, Washington, Immigration, Democratic Party, Pittsburgh, Artur Davis, California, Nashville, Jewish Issues, New Hampshire, Ohio, Boca Raton, Long Island, Northeast, Philadelphia, Anthony Weiner, Latino Issues, Florida, John McCain, Appalachia, South Central US, St. Louis, Kamala Harris, Louisiana, Montgomery County, Birmingham, Presidential Election, Kentucky, Texas, Queens, Pennsylvania, New York City, Deep South, Young Voters, Memphis, Governors, Cleveland, Iowa, Georgia, South Carolina, San Francisco, White Voters, Rnc, Michael Steele, Broward, Hip Hop, Duluth, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

The complicated picture of how America came to vote for its first black president reflects the country's multifarious attitude towards race

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The Woman Who Cried Wolf

Laurence Leamer | Posted 03.19.2009 | Media

Read More: Ma, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Palm Beach, Jewish, Madness Under the Royal Palms, Leamer, Media News
Laurence Leamer

When you write a controversial book that exposes an island of privilege as it has never been exposed before, you can't expect a love fest. But the response to my book has gone far beyond that.

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Wall Street Gives Obama Thumbs Down

Dan Dorfman | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Manhattan, India, General Electric, Poverty, Aspen, Steve Forbes Housing Crisis, New York Real Estate, Economy, Stock Market, Economic Crisis, Real Estate, Palm Beach, Barack Obama, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Subprime Mortgages, Economic Stimulus Package, Dow Jones, Bailout, Wall Street, Stimulus Package, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Warren Buffett, Foreclosure, Economic Stimulus, Bonuses, Wall Street Bonuses, China, Politics News
Dan Dorfman

Europe, Japan and the United States are all in the midst of a recession and the world's fastest growing emerging markets, among them China and India, are slowing markedly.

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Is Bernie Madoff's Life in Danger?

Laurence Leamer | Posted 02.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Palm Beach, Bernard Madoff, Madoff Scandal, Madoff Victims, Scandal, Crime, Business News
Laurence Leamer

Many of Madoff's victims were part of an acquisitive community overly concerned with wealth and status. But something is happening now that will likely change the whole temper of this tale.

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George Cloutier, Tiffany Spadafora Host Lavish $2 Million New Year's Eve Wedding In Palm Beach

New York Post | Page Six | Posted 02.05.2009 | Business

Read More: The Breakers, Palm Beach, Tiffany Spadafora, Palm Beach Breakers, George Cloutier Wedding, George Cloutier, Business News

Multimillionaire George Cloutier blew $2 million on his New Year's Eve wedding to his longtime love, Tiffany Spadafora. The two exchanged vows at a la...

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The GOP's White Supremacy

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Mckinsey, George W. Bush, Lyn Westmoreland, Clarence Thomas, Sarah Palin, Same-Sex Marriage, Redistricting, Virginia, Condoleezza Rice, Mel Martinez, Republican Party, Minneapolis, Agnosticism, North Carolina, African-American Issues, Michael Steele, Colin Powell, Bobby Jindal, Alabama, Congress, Catholicism, Christian Issues, Midwest, Kansas City, JC Watts, Tennessee, Christianity, Senate, New Orleans, Gop, Palm Beach, Kkk, Cuban-American Issues, Maryland, Mel Watt, Arizona, Democratic Party, California, Evangelicals, Ken Blackwell, Jewish Issues, Ahn Cao, Ohio, Latino Issues, Islam, John McCain, Florida, Appalachia, House, Asian-American Issues, White Supremacists, Sanford Bishop, Hispanic Issues, Milwaukee, Deep South, Memphis, Religion, Segregation, Georgia, Southern Issues, Charles Barkley, David Duke, Gay Issues, White Voters, Lousiana, Barack the Magic Negro, Gop White Supremacy, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.

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Madoff Unmasked: The Cry of the Snookered Investor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Palm Beach, Financial Crisis, Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Bernie Madoff, Palm Beach Country Club, Real Estate, Charities, Investors, Madoff Fraud, Bernie Madoff Victims, Madoff Scandal, Business News
Rick Horowitz

Who does this to people? Who takes families' life savings, everything they built up over all the years and years, everything they need for later, and just takes like a thief until there's nothing?

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Bernard Madoff and the Jews of Palm Beach

Laurence Leamer | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Ponzi Scheme, Bernard Madoff, Wall Street, Palm Beach, Laurence Leamer, Bernie Madoff, Madoff Palm Beach, Madoff, Business News
Laurence Leamer

In Palm Beach, tt was an honor having Bernard Madoff handle your fortune. Yesterday Madoff was arrested and accused of running what probably will prove the greatest Ponzi scheme in the history of the world.

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The Wages of Wealth

Laurence Leamer | Posted 01.03.2009 | Style

Read More: Palm Beach Voters, Wealthy, Wealth, New Deal, Obama New Deal, Florida, Fdr, Palm Beach, Barack Obama, Style News
Laurence Leamer

Within the economic elite, there is inchoate anger, great fear, and a willful distancing from the great new American drama that is about to begin in Washington.

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