Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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The Madoff Victims Who Came Out Ahead
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Edward Jay Epstein studied government at Cornell and Harvard, and received a PhD from Harvard in 1973. The Big Picture: The New Logic of Money and Power in Hollywood is his 13th book. The sequel, The Hollywood Economist will be published in January 2010.
Some feeder funds, which directed money Bernie Madoff's way, ended up hundreds of millions of dollars in the black. So why are they claiming ignorance of his crimes-or worse, describing themselves as "the greatest Madoff victim"?
What I Told Madoff Today
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Burt Ross, former mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and former administrator of the New Jersey Energy Office, is a lawyer and real-estate investor. A book The Bribe was written about his exploits with the Mafia.
On the day of Bernard Madoff's sentencing, The Daily Beast's Burt Ross, who lost $5 million, offers a statement to the court explaining why the Ponzi schemer should never be let out of prison.
Did Bernie Madoff Get a Billion-Dollar Kickback?
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Allan Dodds Frank is a business investigative correspondent who specializes in white collar crime. He also is President of the Overseas Press Club of America, one of the many journalism organizations that protests the arrests of journalists abroad and repression of freedom of speech.
A lawyer for Madoff victims tells The Daily Beast's Allan Dodds Frank that she believes the Ponzi king had a sweetheart deal with his biggest investor. Inside the mysterious $5 billion profit.
The Bag Lady Papers, Part VII
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Alexandra Penney is an artist, best-selling author, former editor-in-chief of Self magazine, and originator, with Evelyn Lauder, of the Pink Ribbon for breast cancer awareness. Her new book, The Bag Lady Papers, comes out in February from Hyperion. She also had a one-person show at Galerie in Berlin in April and her work was shown at Miami’s Art Basel. She lives in New York, has one treasured son in Los Angeles and more amazing friends than could ever be imagined.
Madoff victim and Daily Beast blogger Alexandra Penney on Bernie's dirty fantasies, living the frugal life, and some post-Ponzi schadenfreude-like seeing Ruthie's roots.
Why Bibi Humiliated Biden
America's Craziest Cities
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U.S. Debunks Autism Myth
Adam Winkler is a constitutional law professor at UCLA.
What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers
Charles Fried was Solicitor General of the United States. His book with Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Gregory Fried is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His book with Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Haiti Loses Its Lifeboat
Dr. Sheri Fink the award-winning book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), about wartime Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford. She was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
