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Archive for the 'Madoff' Tag

Still cleaning up after Pandora and Bernie…

Thursday, February 10th, 2011

We know that Pandora was a mythological woman, and that her notorious box really started out as a jar.* But the premise of her myth – that evil has been unleashed on Earth – made us think about federal prisoner number 61727-054… otherwise known as Bernie Madoff. Madoff didn’t invent the Ponzi scheme; that dubious [...]

The SEC’s massive Friday night dump…

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

By now, you’ve probably heard or read about the massive document dump that the SEC unleashed on Friday night: 536 exhibits related to the Bernie Madoff case. Reading all of these — even figuring out which ones are worth reading — was all but impossible, even if it wasn’t earnings and 10-Q season. The New [...]