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Litt, who in mid-December took on the even juicier task of prosecuting Bernard Madoff, is deliberate, with an extreme attention to detail. He has a cool head, but friends love pointing to his dry sense of humor. For example, he once told a dentist he was examining in court that he was looking forward to finally having a dentist in his chair. In a recent court brief he quoted Shakespeare. "The irony of the [defense's] casting of his argument in terms of the Lady Macbeth line, 'Out, damned spot! Out I say!,' Litt wrote, "is [an irony...
...Monday, a judge declined a request by prosecutors to jail Bernard Madoff, saying the former investment adviser who is accused of bilking $50 billion from clients did not pose a flight risk. Prosecutors made the request last week after it was discovered that Madoff had sent over a million dollars in jewelry to relatives in the past few weeks. Investigators also revealed that Madoff had $173 million in signed checks sitting in his office drawer at the time of his arrest. Prosecutors say they will appeal the ruling...
...unregistered feeder-fund victims are likely to get little. Here's why: As it stands, the SIPC's charter helps investors recover monies only from registered brokers and firms engaged in fraud. This is all good for the 8,000 who had registered or direct accounts with Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, a broker/dealer. In fact, right now, most are busy filling out their just arrived SIPC claim-recovery forms in hopes of getting back half a mil. See a brief history of Ponzi schemes...
...congressman, first disgraced Representative Mark Foley and then his successor, Tim Mahoney, who lost his re-election bid in November after admitting to having multiple extramarital affairs and paying hush money to one of his former mistresses. And Palm Beach was the winter home of alleged Ponzi scheme leader Bernard Madoff, who found many of his allegedly bilked investors in the area...
...Madoff, Bernard •perplexing continued nonimprisonment of continues to be taken advantage...