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...Chase account, Madoff said in court in mid-March, was used to shuttle money back and forth between his U.S. and London operations, to make it appear he was executing trades in European markets, as he told federal regulators. Madoff made no trades at all with his Chase account, but rather just collected investor monies, wrote checks to investors, and took money for himself. In court, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 counts of fraud, from wire transfer to money-laundering...
...that needs to be told. I have just read Ilan Pappé's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, and I believe it is time for Israel to face up to this atrocity and cease labeling as "anti-Semitic" anyone who dares to draw attention to it. Jim Kearns, LONDON...
...bleak charity of the time to raise a family. It made me think that a decent social security system designed to protect the weak was no bad thing." - Recounting his family's difficulties after his father's death during his first speech to Parliament in 1998. (The London Telegraph, November...
...strip club. Four years ago John Howard, sober, took Australia into the Iraq war. I think the electorate can judge which one did the more harm." -Australian Senator Bob Brown, leader of the Green party, defending Rudd after the revelation of his strip club visit (The Times of London, August...
...equivalent of a National Security Council to mediate among the various parts of government involved, it's not unusual for a little intraministerial miscommunication to occur now and then. But many are asking why this decision, communicated poorly or not, was made now. With the G-20 meeting in London on April 2 and the NATO gathering in Strasbourg immediately after offering Spain a first chance to work with Obama, why would Zapatero risk alienating his allies? (See pictures of the world reacting to Obama's election...