Madoff: “Screw the Victims”

I just returned from Nino’s in Manhattan, where the authors of The Club No One Wanted to Join gathered to discuss their book. They are a group of twenty-nine investors in Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Their book describes the change in their lives since the...

Club Madoff

The Club No One Wanted To Join-Madoff Victims In Their Own Words Twenty-nine Madoff victims have banded together to tell their stories. Their book is appropriately entitled: The Club No Wanted to Join—Madoff Victims in Their Own Words. My copy has not shipped yet. So...

Fraud—Spoils of Democrats and Republicans

Groups Sued Over Funds From Stanford According to The Wall Street Journal, the receiver for R. Allen Stanford’s Ponzi scheme is suing Democratic and Republican political groups for return of funds. The proverbial clawbacks: A spokesman for the Democratic...

Madoff: The Three Amigos

What do Bernie Madoff, Ahmed Ghailani, and a captured Somali pirate have in common? They’re all locked in the same New York prison. It’s too bad Ghailani, Guantanamo detainee and terror suspect with alleged links to Al Qaeda, is being held in isolation. I...

Madoff Leftovers

Something in the refrigerator went bad. Way bad. It smells awful. I thought it was the milk. When rancid, milk is quite possibly the most foul and vile substance on the planet. Not the problem. I checked the broccoli. That vegetable emits ripe and fearsome odors when...