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...Madoff, Bernard • hideous suffering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 1/30/2009 | See Source »

...more than $370 million was deposited into Agape accounts - the vast majority of which was provided by more than 1,500 investors - and that less than $10 million of the $370 million was actually used to make loans to commercial borrowers. (See pictures of Bernard Madoff's demise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Ponzi Scheme? Money Manager Cosmo Busted | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...lawyer who represents salespeople at the firm who "felt something wasn't right." The salespeople were selling friends and family on Agape's high-yield claims. "[Cosmo] actually sat down with investors and explained his investments to them. He was a very convincing salesman," said Devine. (Read "Beyond Madoff, Ponzi Schemes Proliferate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Ponzi Scheme? Money Manager Cosmo Busted | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

Robert Chew is a former investor with Madoff via a feeder fund. He lives in Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Ponzi Scheme? Money Manager Cosmo Busted | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

...Gist: Bernie Madoff and Co. have, for the moment, dislodged attorneys from the doghouse of public opinion. But a world without tort claims and padded billing would still be many people's idea of heaven. Howard, an attorney and author of the best-selling book The Death of Common Sense, chronicles a society in which rules have run amok and litigation looms as a constant threat. Among his egregious examples: a Florida teacher wary of restraining a hysterical child gets the cops to slap handcuffs on the kid instead; a New York City high school prohibits nurses from calling ambulances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Without Lawyers | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

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