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BERNIE MADOFF, jailed financier and Ponzi schemer, in a newly released interview with representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission, which was part of an investigation into the SEC's failure to uncover Madoff's scam for 16 years
The TPA would have a budget of up to $200 million, funded by contributions from the private sector (hotels and airlines, for instance) and a new $10 fee that would be paid by any entering foreign visitor who does not require an entry visa. The latter element has proven controversial...
Alexander is in the midst of a love affair with his thesaurus that is torrid enough to rival John Banville or Salman Rushdie. “Gravid,” “photopic,” “calcareous,” “neurasthenia?...
In the wake of the financial crisis, prosecutors again hoped e-mail would point to wrongdoers. In mid-2008, the Securities and Exchange Commission released e-mails that seemed to show that analysts at credit-rating agencies understood that the mortgage bonds they were rating AAA were actually much riskier...
The first proposal for using injected drugs as a form of capital punishment came in the late 19th century, when a New York commission on capital punishment included the suggestion that the method might prove more humane than hanging. According to Robert M. Bohm, a professor at the University of...