The Bernard Madoff Scandal
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How To Say "I Quit"--And How NOT To
Date: 08/25/2009
First off, don't do what I did. I think I have mentioned the mean boss I once had . Well, after several months of being browbeat, the day came when I couldn't take it another minute. What'd I do? I literally packed up my things and walked out the door that very day. I shot my intolerable employer a polite but firm explanatory email (fingers trembling the whole time), removed ...
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Better than stock tips from Bernie Madoff
Date: 08/13/2009
Karl Rove complains that Barack Obama doesn't know the difference between campaigning and governing, and is foolishly turning his opponents into enemies.
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Bernie Madoff's Sentencing Over - Good News?
Date: 06/29/2009
You know Bernie Madoff , of course. The guy with the onomatopoeia for a name? The Madoff sentencing is now complete. Bernard Madoff is going to jail for an 150 year sentence for his $50 billion Ponzi Scheme . The list of Madoff victims is as vast as the sky, and mostly Jewish (why screw others when you can screw your own people?). Firstly, why don't they just convert it to a life s ...
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Rwandan Genocide Leaders Get a Whopping Sentence in Court...
Date: 07/16/2009
Not. On Tuesday, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentenced a former governor of Rwanda to life imprisonment for his role in the 1994 genocide. This is the third such ruling this year; previous convictions by the U.N. court include 25 years in prison for a military chaplain convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity, and 30 years to a civil servant for genocide and inciteme ...
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Walter Cronkite and the Death of Trust
Date: 07/17/2009
"Newsman Walter Cronkite, who died at the age of 92, was so thoroughly and uniquely linked with the word "trust" that it is tempting to say that the word should be buried with him. In the generation since he left the anchor desk at the CBS Evening News, there have been other public figures who inspire passion, devotion, confidence, intensity and personal identification. But trust, that milder but ...
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Bernie Madoff sentenced to 150 years
Date: 06/29/2009
That's sentence the prosecutor was asking for and got. I guess his victims can rest assured that he got such a harsh sentence.
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Is Bernie Madoff's Sentence Fair?
Date: 06/29/2009
Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison today. What do you think of this sentence? "He certainly deserves the 150 years-every day of it," writes member IreneAdler. "He got more time than some who are convicted of murder - and that I do not understand," writes member Justme333. Join the debate about Bernie Madoff here.
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Oelwein, Ludlow and the rest of us
Date: 07/06/2009
I rarely agree with Frank Rich, but this weekend he was spot o n. Excerpt: The estimated $65 billion involved in Madoff's flimflam is dwarfed by the more than $2.5 trillion paid so far by American taxpayers to bail out those masters of Wall Street's universe. A.I.G. alone has already left us on the hook for $180 billion. It's hard for those who didn't have money with Madoff to get worked up abo ...
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