{"id":3019,"date":"2009-03-15T22:14:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2009-03-15T23:36:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-16T04:36:22","slug":"tony-soprano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/15\/tony-soprano\/","title":{"rendered":"tony soprano???"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#300030\"><u><strong>Accomplices<\/strong><\/u><\/font>? Information is beginning to show up:    <\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Video\/playerIndex?id=6927550\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this ABC 20\/20<\/strong><\/a> program. About 3+ minutes in, there&#8217;s a very telling segment interviewing a former employee named <strong>Nadir Ibrahim<\/strong>. Bernie wasn&#8217;t around much any more it seems &#8211; in the &quot;semi-retirement mode.&quot; <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\">Then there&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/video-search\/m\/21834646\/ex-madoff-employee-dipascali-ran-the-show.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this interview on Fox News<\/strong><\/a>, again with <strong>Nadir Ibrahim<\/strong>.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Who is Frank DiPascali<\/strong><\/font>? Frank DiPascali Jr. was Madoff&#8217;s Chief Financial Officer.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\">                                            <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2009\/03\/09\/bon-jour-bongiorno-other-names-emerging-in-madoff-case\/\"><strong>Bonjour, Bongiorno: Other Names Emerging in Madoff Case<\/strong><\/a><br \/>         <strong>WSJ Blogs<\/strong><br \/>         By Ashby Jones<br \/>           03\/09\/09<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" title=\"madoff\" src=\"http:\/\/s.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/HC-GN459_Madoff_BV_20090303180059.gif\" alt=\"madoff\" \/>Ever since December, we&rsquo;ve been waiting for other shoes to drop in the Bernie Madoff fraud case. Now, the wait may be coming to an end. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">News has broken that a longtime aide to Madoff, Annette Bongiorno, instructed two assistants to generate trading tickets, now believed to be bogus, for Madoff&rsquo;s investing clients, according to information the assistants gave the government in the investigation. Click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123655521154265891.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong> for the story, from the WSJ&rsquo;s Amir Efrati. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The assistants, Semone Anderson and Winnie Jackson, told prosecutors that Bongiorno, a four-decade veteran of the Madoff firm, would ask them to research daily share prices for blue-chip stocks from the previous month or several months. Using the data of past share prices, Bongiorno would then instruct the assistants to generate &ldquo;tickets&rdquo; showing purported trades, which resulted in gains that were in line with Madoff&rsquo;s steady annual returns, this person said. <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Bongiorno wasn&rsquo;t reached for comment. Such fact-gathering doesn&rsquo;t mean that prosecutors will determine there was any criminal liability&#8230;<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">Prosecutors also have begun interviewing employees from a group that was separate from Ms. Bongiorno and oversaw accounts for many of Madoff&rsquo;s institutional accounts. That group was headed by Frank DiPascali Jr., 52, who hasn&rsquo;t yet been asked to speak with prosecutors, according to a person familiar with the matter. DiPascali&rsquo;s lawyer declined to comment on his client&rsquo;s behalf.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&#038;sid=ag7..rlaGZLw&#038;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Madoff&rsquo;s &lsquo;Street-Smart&rsquo; Aide DiPascali Was Investors&rsquo; Go-To Guy <\/strong><\/a> <br \/>        <strong>Bloomberg<\/strong><br \/>        January 15, 2009 <br \/>         By David Voreacos, David Glovin and Patricia Hurtado<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">     Frank DiPascali Jr. joined Bernard Madoff&rsquo;s firm a year after graduating from a Catholic high school in Queens, New York. Over a 33-year career, he rose through the ranks, eventually calling himself chief financial officer. For investors like Tim Murray of Minnesota, DiPascali was a &ldquo;street-smart New Yorker&rdquo; who fielded calls about the millions of dollars he entrusted to the firm.     <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">&ldquo;To a Madoff customer with a discretionary account, he is the guy,&rdquo; said Murray, 57, a real-estate developer. &ldquo;There is nobody else.&rdquo;     <\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Now, U.S. prosecutors and regulators are probing whether DiPascali, 52, played a role in an alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme that led to Madoff&rsquo;s arrest on Dec. 11, people familiar with the matter said&#8230; Madoff often told investors that options trading was a key to his success. DiPascali, who is not charged, became director of options in 1986 at the firm and CFO in 1996, according to a resume he prepared in 2002.     <\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\">&ldquo;Mr. DiPascali is a blue-collar guy, not a Wall Street master of the universe,&rdquo; said his attorney <strong>Marc Mukasey<\/strong>, a former federal prosecutor now at <strong>Bracewell &amp; Giuliani<\/strong> LLP in New York. &ldquo;He is devastated by the losses to investors.&rdquo; DiPascali, who grew up in the middle-class enclave of Howard Beach in Queens, now lives in suburban Bridgewater, New Jersey. He and his wife have raised four children. They live in a five-bedroom, five-bathroom house with a pool and cabana on seven wooded acres. They have two black Mercedes vehicles and a 61-foot boat built by Viking Yacht Co&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Sooner or later, we&#8217;re going to find out what happened. Somebody, presumably somebody on the 17th floor of the Lipstick Building, generated those statements that Madoff&#8217;s clients received every month. The statements had trades listed on them, accurate. trades The scheme couldn&#8217;t have worked without them. So, somebody,  presumably somebody on the 17th floor of the Lipstick Building, had to look up the stocks that would legitimize Bernie&#8217;s report &#8211; albeit that the trades were never made and filled in after the fact. Who? Sounds like <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Frank DiPascali Jr.<\/strong><\/font> and <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Annette Bongiorno<\/strong><\/font> are prime candidates [Why do they always turn out to be Italians?]. And then there&#8217;s brother <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Phillip Madoff<\/strong><\/font> and sons <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Andrew Madoff<\/strong><\/font> and <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Mark Madoff<\/strong><\/font>. According to <font color=\"#300030\"><strong>Nadir Ibrahim<\/strong><\/font>, Bernie himself wasn&#8217;t around very much recently &#8211; so his claim that it was all his doing is just a big old lie [what a surprise]. It seems almost impossible that his accomplices could be generating fabricated statements and tickets without knowing a lot about what was going on [Of course, with all of these Italian names, rumors of Mafia connections are out there &#8211; though nothing beyond speculation yet]. As usual, <em>the<\/em> <em>devil is<\/em> going to be <em>in the details<\/em>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/8976754\/Madoff-Trading-Statement-November-2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"351\" border=\"1\" width=\"520\" vspace=\"7\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/madoff_state.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"justify\">And &quot;yes,&quot; <strong>Frank DiPascali<\/strong> is represented by <strong>Marc Mukasey<\/strong>, son of recent Attorney General, <strong>Michael Mukasey<\/strong>. And &quot;yes,&quot; <strong>Marc Mukasey<\/strong> is in the Law firm of that <strong>Rudy Giuliani<\/strong>, the recent Republican candidate for President of the United States. Small World&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accomplices? Information is beginning to show up: Watch this ABC 20\/20 program. About 3+ minutes in, there&#8217;s a very telling segment interviewing a former employee named Nadir Ibrahim. Bernie wasn&#8217;t around much any more it seems &#8211; in the &quot;semi-retirement mode.&quot; Then there&#8217;s this interview on Fox News, again with Nadir Ibrahim. Who is Frank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}