The Wall Street Journal digs deeper into the Madoff scandal, raising questions about who missed the red flags here. It also names more Jewish names who took hits.
Investigators dug through financial records at Bernard Madoff’s investment firm as the list of victims of his alleged Ponzi scheme widened to include real-estate magnate Mortimer Zuckerman, the foundation of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, Sen. Frank Lautenberg and a charity of movie director Steven Spielberg.
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