Catch Me If You Can
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.
Bernie Madoff bragged he might lead the SEC, fumed when investigators asked for documents-and was aghast at the agency's ineptitude. Allan Dodds Frank dissects the inspector general's report.
Sex With Madoff
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 Madoff mistress Sheryl Weinstein's tell-all is released, Madoff victim Burt Ross confesses to a non-affair with Ruthie-and spares a thought for poor Mr. Weinstein, who joins the publicly humiliated spouses club.
The Madoff Prison Squeeze
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.
Frank DiPascali Jr., Bernie Madoff's former CFO, thought he'd escape immediate imprisonment by pleading guilty to 10 felony counts. Instead, he was sent straight to jail. Will he still help the Feds put Madoff's family behind bars?
The Madoff Victims Who Came Out Ahead
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"?
In 1979, before he developed a taste for Savile Row suits, Bernie was just a T-shirt kind of guy-who appreciated his broker. (Also, thanks to Elie...
Feds Want 150 Years for Bernie
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.
Prosecutors want a 150-year sentence for Bernard Madoff-the maximum allowed and 100 years more than the probation office recommended. Meanwhile, Ruthie's giving up her jewelry and cutting deals.
The Bag Lady Papers, Part VII
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. She 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.
Was Madoff 'Victim' and Best Friend an Accomplice?
Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who was on the staff of the New York Times and has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review and Magazine. Her latest book is My Father's Secret War, about her father, who was a spy for the OSS during World War II.
New evidence suggests Bernie had powerful accomplices in his scheme-philanthropist Norman Levy and a second accountant. Lucinda Franks reports on the international investigation.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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