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...center of the post-Madoff world, a world that includes multi-billion dollar feeder fund lawsuits, multi-million dollar deals with international banks, and, less grand, the issuing of multi-hundred thousand dollar checks to the nearly 7,000 direct account holders caught up in Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. (See pictures of the demise of Bernard Madoff...
...bankrupt firm for the benefit of the estate and its creditors. Consequently, Picard is using his authority to collect from customers who received preferences, non-existent principal, and/or payouts of fictitious profits to the detriment of other defrauded customers whose money was consumed by Madoff's global Ponzi scheme...
...depositing his money in an escrow account reserved for construction funds. He suspects his and other investors' money was used by the developer to purchase more land and then sell off more units without ever starting construction at a single site. "It seems to be some kind of Ponzi scheme," he says. What's worse, he then discovered that the company may have sold his property twice. "I thought Dubai looked like the safest place to invest in the Middle East," he says. "They appeared to have laws that would protect investors." But Dubai's real estate regulatory body...
...might be a good time to ponder that great philosophical question: does any of it really matter? In the grand scheme of things, will your sense of well-being be affected by the fact that you failed this exam (meaning, got a B minus) many years...
...military commission could not try an Indiana lawyer accused of agitating for the Confederacy, ruling that citizens must be tried in civilian courts when they're open and accessible. But in 1942, the court upheld President Roosevelt's tribunals for the eight accused German saboteurs in the failed scheme known as Operation Pastorius. More recently the court slapped down the Bush Administration's planned commissions in three separate cases, ruling among other things that only Congress can establish the tribunals; that some protections of the Geneva Conventions must extend to prisoners; and that the prisoners' right to habeas corpus cannot...