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Progressive Enemy #1: Bernie Madoff!
I happened to catch about 15 seconds on Anderson Cooper on CNN tonight, in the middle of the ongoing story on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme, which we're all reading and hearing about in the MSM over the past few days: here, here, and here. But, the real story, at least as far as the ...
How I Got Screwed by Bernie Madoff
How I Got Screwed by Bernie Madoff
time.com — Bernard Madoff, founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, on his trading floor in New York in... 1999 (more) How I Got Screwed by Bernie Madoff
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Bernie Madoff on the modern stock market (video)
youtube.com — Bernard Madoff, former NASDAQ chaiman now implicated in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme, at a 2007 roundtable... discussion with Justin Fox, Ailsa Roell, Robert A. S... (more) Bernie Madoff on the modern stock market (video)
Fairfield Greenwich Group: We Thought Bernie Madoff Was Best Money Manager In World
clusterstock.alleyinsider.com — The Bernie Madoff swindle caught a lot of folks asleep at the switch. Chief among them? Funds-of-funds... and other third-party advisors who brag about the extraordinary diligence of their manager selection process. (more) Fairfield Greenwich Group: We Thought Bernie Madoff Was ...
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Belmont Club — ... Enemy Number One for impoverishing all of its favorite charities. Daily Kos today declared Bernie Madoff public enemy No. 1 … Madoff controlled the funds of the JEHT Foundation, a major source of grants for organizations like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the ACLU. According to a statement from President and CEO Robert Crane, the foundation will close its doors next month. Virtually all of its grants will be cancelled. For a full list of grants from the JEHT, click here . The previous post pointed out that “activists” have a curious relationship with money. ...

Progressive Charities Look for the Silver Lining in Massive Funds Chokepoint
AMERICAN DIGEST — ... "Madoff, single-handedly, has done more harm to the Progressive cause than almost anyone yet realizes. And, that's because The JEHT Foundation, one of the leading providers of grants for all things Progressive, has just abruptly announced they're shutting their doors at the end of January as a result of having come to the realization that they've lost virtually all their money because it was all under Madoff's management." -- Daily Kos: State of the Nation [VIA ...

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