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When you write a column called "Stupid Investment of the Week," the things you are thankful for are a bit out of the ordinary. Usually it's stuff that makes most people miserable: Overpriced stocks; hare-brained investment schemes; "systems" promising...
Tags: Bernie Madoff, Boston, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Confidence tricksters, NASDAQ, economics, Madoff, Bernard Madoff, AARP, Insurance
November 26, 2009 , 12:05 AM Illustration by Ross MacDonald. Reflecting on Norman Rockwell’s famous Thanksgiving painting, Freedom from Want , a thoughtful essayist recently wrote: “ Freedom from Want … is especially telling, for the scene it depicts...
Tags: Norman Rockwell, pleaded guilty, Bernard Madoff, Ross MacDonald, Bernie Madoff, White House, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Confidence tricksters, Marc Stuart Dreier, Fraud, economics, Madoff, Securities fraud, Law Crime, Allen Stanford
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...
Tags: Bernie Madoff, Avi Asher, Nashville Marriott, Nashville, NASDAQ, Auction, Ponzi scheme, Recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal, Madoff investment scandal, Business Finance, economics, Confidence tricksters, Bernard Madoff
Bernie Madoff funnelled investor funds through Anglo Irish Bank accounts to pay for his extravagant lifestyle, a US court case has alleged. Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his role in the infamous €45bn Ponzi scheme last June, is...
Tags: Ruth Madoff, Mrs Madoff, Bernie Madoff, Anglo Irish Bank, London, client fund, United Kingdom, Bernard Madoff, Participants in the Madoff investment scandal, UBS AG, Madoff, Ponzi scheme, economics, Confidence tricksters, Madoff investment scandal, Business Finance
Several hundred of his former possessions were auctioned off in New York City on Saturday, and most of them sold for prices that crushed their high estimates. In total, the auction brought in more than $900,000 from goods seized from Madoff's properties.
Tags: Bernie Madoff, Alan Richardson, Ruth Madoff, mets jacket, New York Mets, Rolexes, Fort Lauderdale, NASDAQ, Auctioneering, Auction, Madoff investment scandal, economics, Confidence tricksters, Bernard Madoff
But many in the industry doubt there is ever any new money involved in these affairs. Malcolm Walker, chief executive of Iceland and one of the country's most successful retailers, told Retail Week in 2007: "Everyone knows price wars are bullshit – you...
Tags: Bernie Madoff, price war, Iceland, Reykjavík, Bernard Madoff, NASDAQ, Asda, Facebook, Stamp duty, economics, Confidence tricksters, Tesco
Reading the dirtbagchronicle is like buying an album from your favorite band. Two of the songs are great and the rest suck. I picked my favorite 10 from the 100 or so that have been posted since June. They probably aren't your favorites, but the Greatest...
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Court-appointed trustee, Irving Picard, had been given the dubious charge of overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securites. As we all know, Bernard Madoff is in jail for the rest of his life for swindling investors out of...
Tags: Bernie Madoff, Madoff, scandal, swindle, allnews, investors, dollars, restitution, New York
Jeffry Picower had a heart attack while swimming Sunday and died from accidental drowning, the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner's Office said today. Picower, 67, one of the leading players in the Bernard Madoff financial scandal, was pulled from the...
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The man, described by rescue workers as "elderly" was not immediately identified and was taken to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Palm Beach after he was found not to be breathing or to have a pulse. Picower, a controversial millionaire linked to Bernard...
Tags: Bernard Madoff, Madoff Associate Picower Dies, Mr. Madoff, Palm Beach County, Bernie Madoff, Palm Beach Police Department, Bernard L. Madoff, Jeffry Picower, swimming pool, ponzi scheme