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Madoff boasts he is “quite the celebrity” in prison

Imprisoned financial scam artist Bernard Madoff boasted in a jailhouse letter that he is "quite the celebrity" and treated "like a Mafia don," ABC News said on Thursday.

The Moral Route to Redemption

It’s hard to imagine a more timely book than “Confronting Scandal: How Jews Can Respond When Jews Do Bad Things” by Dr. Erica Brown (Jewish Lights: $24.99). The book comes too late for Bernie Madoff, but Anthony Weiner needs a copy, and so does DSK. Indeed, all of us who look on public scandals that involve Jewish figures as a “shanda far de goyim” — a shame in the eyes of the non-Jews — will find it fascinating.

Author Diana Henriques talks about her new Madoff book, “The Wizard of Lies”


From Prison, Madoff Says Banks ‘Had to Know’ of Fraud


Mets’ owners slapped with Madoff ‘clawback’ lawsuit

The trustee for the Bernard Madoff estate has sued the owners of the New York Mets, claiming they should have known the money made with Madoff was done so nefariously.

The Sentencing of Bernie Madoff


‘Golden boy’ J. Ezra Merkin accused of misleading Jewish investors, groups

" . . . We thought we were investing in Ezra, and now find out we were invested with Madoff. We feel duped and outraged . . . "

Stunned local groups start to count losses as list of Madoff’s victims grows

It didn't take long for Bernard Madoff's arrest in New York for running an alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme to send shockwaves through Los Angeles' Jewish community. The growing swindler's list of victims reads like a who's who of L.A. Jewish communal life, including the Jewish Community Foundation, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, Jewish Family Service, Jewish Free Loan Association and Beit T'Shuvah.

Madoff’s ‘unspeakable evil’ shocks those who thought they knew him well

The paradox -- one man possessed of bountiful quantities of good and evil -- is confounding to many who knew Madoff and only now are discovering his dark side.


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