Word: manion
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Garrity, he said, understood Madoff's impossible returns, but the problem was location: Madoff was not in the New England region. Were jurisdiction not a problem, "he would have had an inspection team inside Madoff's operation the very next day," Markopolos said. Ed Manion, a 15-year SEC-certified financial analyst, also urged Markopolos to continue his investigation. Manion, he said, was the "only one who understood [Madoff's] threat to the public...
...Daniel Manion is an Indiana attorney and a former state senator whose practice has been the usual small-firm mix of real estate transactions, business matters, wills and personal-injury claims. He has never argued a case before a federal appeals court or even been the lead lawyer in any federal case. That did not matter much to his clients or anyone else until President Reagan nominated the conservative lawyer for the important U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago. Soon the Senate will vote on whether to confirm him, and the result is being watched intently...
...Manion supporters respond that the real reasons for opposition to his candidacy are political. ''He's a target of opportunity,'' says Patrick McGuigan of the right-leaning 721 Group. ''He's probably the most conservative of the pending crop'' of judicial nominations. In the Indiana senate, Manion co-sponsored legislation to permit public schools to post the Ten Commandments just two months after the Supreme Court had struck down a Kentucky law that required such posting. He sometimes appeared on a radio and TV show with his father Clarence, a former dean of the Notre Dame Law School...
...He’s leaving on a very high note,” said Laura S. Manion...
...other vantage point of Tob Dara, we were told later, ITN's Julian Manion proclaimed loudly to his editors that he was in serious danger broadcasting from the roof of the mosque. The biggest danger was the roof collapsing. And a radio correspondent who slipped into a local house to file reported getting half stoned on second hand fumes from marijuana being consumed by the residents. On the way back from Sinjeddarah our hopes of a relatively full night's sleep were dashed when the car broke down. We dozed fitfully until something picked...