Culture Buzz When will justice be served? Young Turks host Cenk Uygur delivers a summary of a report by Reuters that shows our government is focusing on small scale swindlers while turning a blind eye to the massive fraud by large banks despite the wealth of evidence against them.
Culture Buzz This is how I always imagine Jesus's ascension into the pearly gates. With all his dignity and harness intact.
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Two can play this game. Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from her husband, and now the NBA star is seeking an annulment from his reality star wife based on fraud.
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Someone has way too much time on his hands…
It is not at all stuffed. Don't believe the hype. (I would still eat the entire damn thing if it walked in our office door, let's be real.)
The similarities are striking. How could you not trust a man that looks like old Gee Dubs? Just powder up Bernie's pale cheeks and we might as well slap him on the $50 billion dollar bill.
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Business Buzz The SEC has a special name for getting screwed with your pants on by someone you trust: affinity fraud! The Madoff scandal is a textbook example of affinity fraud, as Bernie exploited a huge number of religious ties in order to build his giant Ponzi scheme. Madoff scammed the Jewish community big-time, and many Jewish charities and universities suffered big losses as a result. The good news is that the Torah reserves “a special circle in Hell” for people who steal from charities. I assume most religious texts do, actually, so that's probably a lesson for future affinity fraudsters.
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AP - The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street's biggest Ponzi schemes is growing, snaring some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich and the famous, pensioners and charities. Now much poorer investors include Steven Spielberg, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg, the owner of the Mets and the former owner of the Eagles.
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Bernard Madoff, a former chairman of Nasdaq, has been arrested in what may be the largest fraud ever blamed on a single person. He told the FBI agents who came to arrest him that he'd “paid investors with money that wasn't there” and that he expected to go to jail. Fun fact: he started his career on Wall Street in 1960 with $5,000 he had made as a lifeguard on Long Island.