Word: victimizer
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...comments come in the wake of numerous Ponzi scheme crimes, most notably Bernard Madoff's $65 billion scam, which Shulman said was tragic but raised a "staggering array of tax and pension implications for the victims," many of whom have lost entire life savings and retirement accounts. (Read "Another Victim of the Ponzi Schemers...
...Ayesha Siddiqa, a political and military analyst. "His very authoritarian behavior is raising a serious question: are we looking at Pakistan's Mr. Putin? And how does one deal with a President who breaks all promises?" Sensing opportunity, Sharif has cast himself as a man of principle and a victim of Zardari's excesses. Unburdened by the pressures of power, the Punjabi industrialist has been pushing the government to reinstate Chaudhry for over a year now. He quit the coalition government after Zardari backtracked on agreements to do so. A confrontation had been simmering over recent months, but broke into...
...place for financial-fraud survivors trying to recoup lost money. But with the April 15 tax clock ticking, figuring out what to do about recovery, both from taxes and from the Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SPIC), has become a mind-boggling maze for accountants and their Ponzi-victim clients. At a hearing yesterday, Madoff pleaded guilty to his decades-long crime, was handcuffed and ordered to jail. Sentencing is scheduled for June, but he could potentially be sentenced to 150 years on 11 counts. (Read "The Madoff Hearing: A Guilty Plea, but No Catharsis...
...course, no one knows what the IRS will do, but Bob Goldstein, a senior consultant at Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York City, says he was assured by the IRS that "guidance would be forthcoming" - by April 15, one hopes. He suggests a simple approach for both the victims and the IRS. "If the [IRS] were to allow the victim to deduct his or her tax basis, less the SIPC recovery and less a small reserve for other recoveries, as a theft loss on the victim's 2008 tax return, the taxpayer could quantify the loss quickly and file...
When the session adjourned, mobs of reporters outside the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse congregated around any victim willing to speak. Ilene Kent, part of a Google group for Madoff "survivors," said her entire family had invested in Madoff's fund. Did she think he was sorry? "Hell, no," she said. "He's sorry he got caught." She took little comfort in his refusal to look at the victims, even though she thought it betrayed some remorse. "I was shocked," she said. "Maybe his blood isn't cold...