Did Bernie Madoff Use His Connections to Cover For Another Securities Fraud Suspect?

Seeded on Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:02 AM EST (Bloomberg.com)

You may remember that after Bernie Madoff reportedly confessed to his sons that he had stolen $50 billion from his firm's investors, news surfaced that Mr. Madoff was a former chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange, which later became NASD, which then morphed into FINRA.

stanford, politics, government-corruption, u-s-news, securities-fraud, financial-fraud, madoff

Swiss Bank Gives Up U.S. Tax Cheats

Seeded on Thu Feb 19, 2009 9:55 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

To avoid criminal charges by U.S. prosecutors, a Swiss bank (UBS) for the first time in history has agreed to provide names of American tax evaders and pay $780 million to the U.S.

corruption, us-news, swiss-banks, corrupt-banks, rich-tax-cheats, good-news-for-u-s

Looking for Love by Having Babies

Mon Feb 9, 2009 11:14 AM EST

Nadya Suleman's quest for "a large family" is symptomatic of a theme heard with disturbing frequency.

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odd-news, suleman, octuplets

Loyalty Oaths

Mon Feb 9, 2009 2:50 AM EST

I recently read about an Israeli politician campaigning for a proposal requiring Israeli citizens to sign a loyalty oath. I am not an Israeli citizen, so this proposal doesn't interest me. But I am a U.S.

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politics, government