March 12, 2009

Madoff pleads guilty, jailed as flight risk

Bernard Madoff was ordered to jail as a potential flight risk after pleading guilty to 11 counts of fraud stemming from his $64 billion Ponzi scheme.

By Jacob Berkman March 12, 2009 7:38 pm

Madoff plea post mortem, a Bernie roundup

News is probably going to be flying in fast and furious today after Bernard Madoff plead guilty to a $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme. We’ll try to keep you posted on the more interesting stories of the day. For one, Bernie says he’s sorry, acording to Sky News: The former chairman of the Nasdaq stock exchange […]

March 12, 2009 7:13 pm

Remember that Franken-Coleman thing? It still hasn’t ended

We once thought we could have a resolution to the Al Franken-Norm Coleman case by Chanukah. Now we’re just a few weeks before Pesach and they’re still in court — with Franken expected to rest his defense case today. According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, it doesn’t look good for Coleman: Republican Norm Coleman’s case in […]

March 12, 2009 7:06 pm

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