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The Madoff Memoir You Might Not Know About

October 31, 2011 – 5:03 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores There has been a lot of  TV hoopla surrounding the ‘exclusive’ interviews with Ruth Madoff and her youngest son Andrew as part off the promotion for a new book Truth and Consequences: Life Inside the Madoff Family by Laurie Sandell.  Bernie Madoff, of course, is the financier convicted of running a 50 billion dollar [...]

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No One Would Listen

March 10, 2010 – 7:50 pm

The Christian Science Monitor just published a list of 10 new recession slang words.  One of these words is Madoff’d, v. To get ripped off in a particularly offensive fashion. Sample sentence: “Oh man, that cab driver totally Madoff’d me. I gave him a $20 and he only gave me change for a $10.” Shop [...]

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