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...“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton,” wrote George Bernard Shaw, “you may as well make it dance.”...
...Bernard Pryor and Nina Shapiro, non-executive directors, also bought smaller stakes at the same price....
...Mr Shapiro, who is still alive, settled for $625m. Mr Levy’s estate settled for $220m; he died in 2005. Mr Chais is dead and his family has not settled....
...So in 1960 he founded Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities, his own tiny brokerage, in office space borrowed from his father-in-law....
...One of Bernard Madoff’s oldest investors and several of his family members have reached an agreement to forfeit $625m to US officials seeking to recover money for victims of history’s biggest Ponzi scheme...
...Last week, the family of Carl Shapiro, another Madoff investor, agreed to pay $625m to the trustee and prosecutors....
...While it’s not quite on the scale of Bernard Madoff’s epic heist or Allen Stanford’s alleged scheme, $900m isn’t a small amount....
...See Exhibit 29, below] On Mary Schapiro - Madoff stated that Mary Shapiro was a “dear friend,” and that she “probably thinks I wish I never knew this guy.”...
...“With income flows very constrained and household balance sheets over-leveraged, any incremental increase is likely to weigh on non-automotive sales,” said Joshua Shapiro, chief US Economist at MFR, a consultancy...
...Richard Shapiro, another investor, wrote: “Upon learning what Madoff really was on December 11, I went into a deep depression . . ....
...He added: “Like so many others, Mr Chais was blindsided and victimised by Bernard Madoff’s unprecedented and pervasive fraud....
..., by James Shapiro, Faber RRP£20 For centuries, the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays has been disputed....
...The man who defended Bernard Madoff would not hesitate to do it again....
...Bernard Madoff had two primary bank accounts set up for him in New York. One account was with the Bank of New York Mellon, account number 866-1126-621 (referred to as BONY 621)....
...Mr Shapiro said in a statement: “I was stunned and saddened to learn about the allegations against Bernie Madoff....
...But Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50bn investment scam has struck residents of this fairy tale spot with a bone-shattering thud....
...The philanthropic world is bracing itself for a serious shake-up following losses of billions of dollars by charities and foundations who invested with Bernard Madoff....
...Bernard Madoff’s downfall is leaving a trail of wealth destruction....
...Looking down on a sunlit Manhattan skyline from the seaplane carrying him to work, Bernard Madoff must have felt on top of the world....
...Prosecutors and the US Securities and Exchange Commission are combing through the books of Bernard L....
...“Ford is in a rather precarious situation right now,” says John Casesa, managing partner at Casesa Shapiro, a New York automotive advisory firm....
...Bernard Shapiro, a Bond Street rare book dealer who will be going to Maastricht as usual, views the incursion of the two houses without enthusiasm....
...Lucent Technologies, Former Chairman and CEO, Cummins Engine Dan Scheinman, Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems Ivan Schlager, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Flom Eric Schmidt, CEO, Google Bernard...
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