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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...
Moreover, Kleinhendler believes Chase abruptly pulled its $250 million in August, when, he says, "it learned from Bear Stearns executives that Madoff's investments were phony." JPMorgan Chase acquired Bear Stearns in March 2008. "Bear Stearns had done deals with Madoff. They were on boards together," Kleinhendler says, and therefore, he posits, perhaps executives at Bear knew Madoff's business was fishy and tipped the bank...
President Obama holds his first meeting with the leader of one of America's closest allies on March 24, a man whose climb to power in many ways mirrors his own. Like Obama, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd beat an older, more conservative rival to lead his country, riding a wave of opposition to the Iraq War and support for more action on issues such as health care and climate change. Both men are intellectuals from modest backgrounds, they lost fathers to car accidents at young ages, and a series of international crises are filling both their inboxes...
...There's a clinical side to him, and sometimes he keeps his passion under wraps. But he's genuinely funny." -Bruce Hawker, a friend and political consultant. (BBC, March...
...March 19, Chacón told Spanish soldiers at a base in Istok that they and the rest of Spain's more than 600 troops who have formed part of the NATO peacekeeping forces (KFOR) in Kosovo since 1999 had finished their work. Once Kosovo unilaterally declared independence from Serbia last year, Spain has been looking for a way out - in part because Spaniards don't recognize an independent Kosovo and also because they have their own separatist issues to deal with at home, in the form of Basque and Catalan nationalism. "The mission has been completed...