Money and Finance
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Seth Alexander and Joel Cohen of MIT Investment Management Company talk to Sanjay Bakshi's class (LINK) Warren Buffett and the Great Salad Oil Swindle [H/T Linc] (LINK) Related book: Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder...
- A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth And Fiction - By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Found via Santangel’s Review. “I’m a proven liar. Don’t believe anything I say.” That was what Samuel Israel III told me last week. He is the hedge fund manager convicted of running a $450 million Ponzi scheme who faked his own suicide in the...
- Mets' Investor David Einhorn Could Up Stake; Protected In Case Of Loss In Madoff Lawsuit
According to a source close to the negotiations, Einhorn is structuring the deal so that he is in effect assuming the $100 million in debt as a protection in the event of a judgment against the Mets' owners in the hotly contested Madoff litigation....
- Fortune: How Bernie Did It
There were other mysteries, as we shall see. But even after it detonated five months ago in a fireworks display of betrayal and recrimination, Madoff's scheme -- possibly the biggest investment fraud in the nation's history -- has remained among...
- Influence In The Madoff Case
Before getting to the two articles below, consider this quote from Warren Buffett: “An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn’t it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose:...
Money and Finance
The Madoff Tapes - By Steve Fishman
One evening, my home phone rang. “You have a collect call from Bernard Madoff, an inmate at a federal prison,” a recording announced. And there he was.
- Links
Seth Alexander and Joel Cohen of MIT Investment Management Company talk to Sanjay Bakshi's class (LINK) Warren Buffett and the Great Salad Oil Swindle [H/T Linc] (LINK) Related book: Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder...
- A Con Man Who Lives Between Truth And Fiction - By Andrew Ross Sorkin
Found via Santangel’s Review. “I’m a proven liar. Don’t believe anything I say.” That was what Samuel Israel III told me last week. He is the hedge fund manager convicted of running a $450 million Ponzi scheme who faked his own suicide in the...
- Mets' Investor David Einhorn Could Up Stake; Protected In Case Of Loss In Madoff Lawsuit
According to a source close to the negotiations, Einhorn is structuring the deal so that he is in effect assuming the $100 million in debt as a protection in the event of a judgment against the Mets' owners in the hotly contested Madoff litigation....
- Fortune: How Bernie Did It
There were other mysteries, as we shall see. But even after it detonated five months ago in a fireworks display of betrayal and recrimination, Madoff's scheme -- possibly the biggest investment fraud in the nation's history -- has remained among...
- Influence In The Madoff Case
Before getting to the two articles below, consider this quote from Warren Buffett: “An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn’t it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose:...