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Blog postAn Evil Man Died and Victims’ Animosity Toward Madoff Outlives Him The last word on Madoff – “What Goes Around Comes Around!” An Evil Man Died Victims’ Animosity Toward Madoff Outlives Him
‘An Evil Man Died’: Victims’ Animosity Toward Madoff Outlives Him
For many of the victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s enormous Ponzi scheme, his death on Wednesday did not assuage their bitterness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/nyregion/bernie-madoff-victims.html?smid=em-share
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Blog postBook by Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Is a New Test for Publishers Article about challenge of publishing: Book by Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Is a New Test for Publishers
Book by Officer Who Shot Breonna Taylor Is a New Test for Publishers
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers involved in the fatal shooting, has a book deal with a small press, but its distributor, Simon & Schuster, in an unusual move, said it won’t ship it.
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Blog postEmpire of Pain, the American Dynasty Behind OxyContin This article is about “Empire In Pain,” a new book on the Sackler family and their OxyContin driven, opioid crisis. It provides a look into how far back the treachery of the family goes, clearly the most villainous force in American medical history. How can it be that one family in broad daylight, could be responsible for the deaths of more than 450,000 Americans, with not one of them spending a day behind bars? Empire of Pain, the America
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Blog postBernard Madoff, Architect of Largest Ponzi Scheme in History, Dead at 82 Bernard Madoff, Architect of Largest Ponzi Scheme in History, Dead at 82
He’s gone but won’t soon be forgotten. In his case, however, the memory will not likely soften. He had begged to be released due to his terminal illness, but the response was, “No dice Bernie.”
Now to his many victims the rejoinder will most likely be, “Rest in misery you bastard!”
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Blog postSEC Accuses Actor of $690 Million Fraud Based on Fake Netflix Deal So rather than being scared off by Bernie Madoff’s sentence to spend the rest of his life behind bars, this fellow decided that he had better way to take people’s money. And now we have a candidate who truly fits the description of a “Bad Actor,” even though we’re stretching it a bit in this case, as he was actually an actor! Its somewhat incomprehensible how he thought he could ultimately get away with such a scam and in the
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Blog postInvestment Firm’s Collapse Put Unseen Risks on Full Display Shades of: The Financial Crisis Revisited…or… A cautionary tale about how the use of “shady” financial instruments called “swaps,” can camouflage the true exposure/risk/leverage that large investors are able to take, and the resulting catastrophe they can cause.
To use them at all at a time like this, when stock market valuations are at all-time highs, is unconscionable and risky beyond description. Oh well…a -
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Blog postJudge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s $28.5 Million Bail Proposal Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s $28.5 Million Bail Proposal Judge Rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s $28.5 Million Bail Proposal
Ghislaine Maxwell was finally arrested and imprisoned in July 2020, following her years of grooming young girls for Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse. Her bail request was denied at year-end and when she walks into the courtroom in July 2021 when her trial is scheduled, she will already have been in pris -
Blog postHow Crying on TikTok Sells Books The latest craze for selling books. How Crying on TikTok Sells Books
How Crying on TikTok Sells Books – “BookTok” videos are starting to influence publishers and best-seller lists, and the verklempt readers behind them are just as surprised as everyone else.
How Crying on TikTok Sells Books
NY Times By Elizabeth A. Harris March 20, 2021
“We Were Liars” came out in 2014, so when the book’s author, E. Lockhart, saw that it -
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Blog postLoose Lips Sink Ships Loose Lips Sink Ships Loose Lips Sink Ships
“Loose Lips Sink Ships.” Boy do they ever! It is not for nothing that such kinds of sayings come to be, ie: “Play with fire and you WILL get burned,” both subsets of “What Goes Around Comes Around.”
Observe enough people making abusive, demeaning and thoughtless remarks, just to be crushed by the aftermath and one would think it would give pause to any adult to do so themselves. But no! Even in relation t -
Blog postTaking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy
James Levine…Maestro or Monster? Should have been remembered as the former, but unfortunately will be as a mixed bag.
The recently deceased James Levine was lauded for creating musical masterpieces over a long career and should have been remembered in the same light as Leonard Bernstein and other classical music greats. Instead that legacy will forever be overshadowed by allegation -
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