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An Arkansas lawyer who once specialized in securities fraud litigation was sentenced in Manhattan federal court on Monday to 86 months in prison for stealing $9.3 million from clients. Steven Eugene Cauley, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul...
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Cruse bid $100 and $200 on several paintings and purchased an oil painting for $300. Auctioneer Avi Asher said only 15 percent to 20 percent of the items actually belonged to Madoff's victims, and he couldn't identify those items. Most of the auctions...
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You would expect a rabbi to refer to the holiest of tomes when asked why we should give to those in need...In an episode called "The Stall," Elaine was in the ladies room when she discovered she had no toilet paper. She asked the woman in the adjoining...
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This has been an Annus Horribilis for the Jewish people," the president of Yeshiva University, Richard Joel, remarked last week, conjuring the Latin phrase used to describe a year filled with absolute misery. Queen Elizabeth II famously used the phrase...
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The data suggest consumption habits don't ever really die, especially when the busiest shopping season of the year is at hand. See full story. Gift-card fees keep on giving -- to card issuers Just in time for the holidays, the Federal Reserve announced...
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Crime Reporter/fmain@suntimes.com The president of the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association was charged Friday with using fellow sergeants' union dues as a personal piggy bank, allegedly stealing more than $600,000 and spending it on a home, gambling...
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We are beset by theft at each turn it seems. If the Bernie Madoff's of the world aren't fleecing us through shakey investment schemes, the local street riff-raff are pulling a "smash & grab" to fill their crack pipes. Governments seem hell-bent on...
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The Securities and Exchange Commission must tighten its process for deciding which investment advisers to inspect if it is to avoid colossal breakdowns like the one that allowed Bernard Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud to go undetected for 16 years,...
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Three South Carolina men accused of bilking people out of more than $80 million lied about how they would invest their money, so it doesn't matter if investors knew it was risky, prosecutors said Thursday...Joseph Brunson and Tony Pough face nearly 60...
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A 19th century medal created to mark the hanging of a cheating banker has been put up for sale in London. The coin came into being for the hanging of Henry Fauntleroy, who forged cheques at his bank Marsh, Sibbald and Co for more than a decade before...
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