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Category Archives: Bernard Madoff
The Believers
I can find no coverage of this book in the American press. I realize it is not available in America but it seems like an important book. The following is the only article I’ve found about this new book. From … Continue reading
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A Charity For The Victims Of Bernie Madoff
Darrah Ford emails: Is this the woman you talked about liking? http://www.myspace.com/humafanclub Madoff’s stolen statue returned — with a ‘lesson’ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090101/ap_on_re_us/madoff_statue Texas Millionaire Offers Support to Charity Victims of Bernard Madoff http://newsblaze.com/story/20081230124359zzzz.nb/topstory.html Jewish? Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl is now Luke … Continue reading
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Bernard Madoff’s Hasidic Court
Benjamin Atlas blogs at Horizontal Plane: Was Bernard L. Madoff Securities a business or a Chasidic court? Is Bernie Madoff a galitzianer? Does he come from Polish or Austrian Galitzia? Galitzia is the origin of many famous or infamous Jewish … Continue reading
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The Trouble With Bernie
From my live cam chat: BernardMadoff: Oh Emma, when I was your age and dating boys, I felt the same way. But then my parents took me to the rabbi and then I had to get married to a woman … Continue reading
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Inside Steven Spielberg’s Wunderkinder Foundation
Here are the 2007 990 IRS filing and the 2006 filing. The amount of trading with the Wunderkinder’s money is unbelievable. It’s as though someone was day-trading with the Foundation’s nestegg. Wunderkinder’s operators were, at best, asleep at the wheel. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Madoff, commodity futures, Elie Wiesel, fraud scandal, irs code, irs filing, steven spielberg
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Manhattan’s Elite – Fifth Avenue Shul Members Lose $2 Billion To Bernie Madoff
Haaretz says: Hanukkah, which began Sunday, will not bring light and joy to the famous Modern Orthodox synagogue, situated in an upscale Manhattan neighborhood, known to many within the Jewish community as the "Fifth Avenue Synagogue." The revelation that has … Continue reading
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Israel’s Technion University Lost $70 Million To Bernie Madoff
The Technion is Israel’s Institute of Technology. Here is the 2006 990 filing by Technion’s American friends who lost the $70 million. The filing is about 100 pages long and I can’t figure it out. Technion is known as one … Continue reading
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Inside The Elie Wiesel Foundation
From the Times of London Dec. 20, 2008: It takes an extraordinarily heartless conman to swindle a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald and Nobel Peace Prize winner out of all his charitable funds. Yet that is exactly what Bernard “Bernie” … Continue reading
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First Reported Suicide From The Bernie Madoff Scandal
This bloke who offed himself was a big deal among French-Swiss Jewry and European Jewish financiers. Experts say that having a big hairy long hyphenated name is the single best warning sign for an impending suicide. How could we have … Continue reading
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