Accomplices? Information is beginning to show up: Watch this ABC 20/20 program. About 3+ minutes in, there’s a very telling segment interviewing a former employee named Nadir Ibrahim. Bernie wasn’t around much any more it seems – in the "semi-retirement mode." Then there’s this interview on Fox News, again with Nadir Ibrahim. Who is Frank […]
Last night, while rummaging around looking for confirmation of the Tourette’s Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Diagnoses, I ran across a few bits and pieces that might be interesting to Madoff watchers like myself. Of course, there are the big questions – accomplices? hidden money? wife and family involvement? Prosecutors target assets of Madoff’s wife […]
At dinner tonight, a friend said of Madoff, "I’d love to interview him. I want to know ‘what makes him tick?‘" We’re both psychoanalysts and naturally drawn to questions like his, what history would create a Bernie Madoff? I’ll admit to surfing around looking for a narrative, maybe somebody who grew up with him who […]
Madoff Had Accomplices: His VictimsBy JOE NOCERA March 13, 2009 … As we passed through security, I asked him what role he thought the government should be playing. It was as if I had flipped a switch. Suddenly, his reticence fell away. “The S.E.C.,” he said, referring to the Securities and Exchange Commission, which muffed […]
Pixie Dust and Cheney’s Assassination Squads By: emptywheel March 13, 2009 A number of people, in their discussion of Sy Hersh’s revelation that Dick Cheney directed assassination squads, look to EO 12333 for some guidance on whether such assassination squads are legal or not. Here’s attytood: By the way, in case there’s any ambiguity on […]
Since yesterday, I’ve been thinking about the assumption that Madoff’s wife and son’s, his brother, were part of his glamorous scheme. It’s easy to target the wife. She’s been on the payroll in the past. She’s definitely into having "stuff." Her face has definitely been "stretched." And she’s trying to hang on to a $7M […]
On the off-hand chance that you’ve just gotten back from Anarctica and have missed all television, here’s the Jon Stewart smackdown of CNBC/Cramer [the full service version].
Watching the evening news, there was an additional fact. When Madoff said, “I believed it would end shortly and I would be able to extricate myself and my clients from the scheme. As the years went by I realized that my arrest and this day would inevitably come,” what he was referring to was that […]
Pleading Guilty to All Charges Madoff Awaits Ruling on Bail By DIANA B. HENRIQUES and JACK HEALY New York Times March 12, 2009 Standing before Judge Denny Chin in United States District Court in Manhattan, Mr. Madoff was sworn in and reminded that he was under oath. Noting that he had waived indictment, Judge Chin […]
Cheney’s Assassination Squads By: emptywheel March 11, 2009 emptywheel points us to this little bombshell… Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes ‘executive assassination ring’ By Eric Black March 11, 2009 At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he […]