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Tag Archives: Bernard Madoff
The Search For Honor
On his radio show today, Dennis Prager said: “My heart sank when I heard about the suicide of Bernard Madoff’s son. He hung himself in his home while his two-year old slept in the next room. I was thinking of … Continue reading
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Latin America Jewry’s Bernard Madoff
Joe emails: The collapse of Stanford Financial is becoming the Madoff Event of Latin American Jewry, and in particular Mexico City’s community, and in particular some major philanthropic and leadership names that maintain one foot in Mexico City and the … Continue reading
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YU Lays Off 60 Employees
From The Jewish Star: The Jewish Star has learned that Yeshiva University will lay off 60 employees. This follows the announcement several months ago of millions of dollars in losses incurred in the debacle involving Bernard Madoff, former chairman of … 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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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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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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Modern Orthodox Ramaz School Ripped Off By Bernie Madoff
Ramaz leaders email their supporters: Dear Ramaz Family, Earlier this week, we sent out a brief message to quickly reassure all those in the Ramaz family that, though Ramaz has exposure resulting from the alleged fraud committed by Bernard … Continue reading
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Did Charities Do Due Diligence On Their Bernard Madoff Investments?
Here’s a tax filing from the now defunct Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation, which invested with Madoff. Their website. If you go to pages 23, 24, you’ll see their investment activities with Madoff. The Foundation had about $8 million. They … Continue reading
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I Talk About The Bernard Madoff Scam With Marc German
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