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Forbes 400 stories: 6 news summaries

Ponzi Loot Puts Madoff Client Among Richest Americans

Picower made $7.2B, lands on Forbes list

Oct 2, 09 11:31 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jeffry Picower is a secretive guy, which must have made his turn in the spotlight this week all the more uncomfortable. The former lawyer, who was already being sued for $5.1 billion in alleged profits from Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, cracked Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans... More »

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fraud • Forbes 400 • Forbes • Ponzi scheme • Bernard Madoff • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities • Jeffry Picower

'Billionaire Bloodbath' Costs America's Super-Rich $300B

Mere multi-millionaires make it into Forbes 400 as slowdown shrinks fortunes

Oct 1, 09 3:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - America's 400 richest people became a whole lot poorer over the last 12 months, according to the latest Forbes list. Their total wealth fell by a whopping $300 billion to a total $1.27 trillion, with 314 of the 400 experiencing a fall in fortunes. A Forbes editor described the... More »

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wealth • Forbes 400 • recession • billionaire • Forbes

Market Meltdown Reshapes Forbes Rich List

Buffett bumps Gates
in redrawn rankings
of world's wealthiest

Oct 10, 08 12:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The mortgage meltdown has certainly hit middle-class Americans hard but hasn't spared the uber-wealthy, Bloomberg reports. Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson’s net worth shed $4 billion between Aug. 29 and Oct. 1, for instance, while Warren Buffett overtook Bill Gates, whose net worth declined $1.5 billion, as... More »

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Google • stock market • Microsoft • Dell • Bill Gates • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Forbes 400 • Carl Icahn • Warren Buffett • Larry Ellison • Oracle • Michael Dell • billionaire • Berkshire Hathaway • Las Vegas Sands Corp. • Oracle of Omaha • Sheldon Adelson • Charles Ergen

Billionaire Dies After Fall at Building Site

Ken Hendricks, 66, built ABC Supply Co. into home-supply chain

Dec 21, 07 6:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Billionaire Ken Hendricks, 66, died today of head injuries after falling through a hole in his unfinished garage roof, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. Hendricks—a high-school dropout who turned ABC Supply Co. into a national building-supply chain—apparently fell through a tarp covering an unfinished portion of an addition to... More »

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Forbes 400 • obituary • billionaire • accidental death

It's Forbes 400 Time Again

You now need $1.3B
to make list of
richest Americans

Sep 21, 07 7:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the 25th year of Forbes magazine's rankings of the 400 riches Americans, the net worth at the poor end of the list is $1.3 billion, up from a flat $1 billion a year ago. Microsoft founder Bill Gates still tops the list with $59 billion, closely followed by... More »

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Bill Gates • Kirk Kerkorian • Forbes 400 • Warren Buffett • list

Billionaire's
Club Welcomes New Members

The Forbes rich list is bigger—and even wealthier—than ever

Mar 9, 07 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The rich are getting richer, younger, and more geographically diverse, Forbes reports, with the number of billionaires up a whopping 19 percent, and their total worth up 35 percent to $3.5 trillion. Not only have billionaires been galloping away from the pack, they've been doing it earlier, bringing the... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Bill Gates • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Starbucks • wealth • Forbes 400 • list • money • billionaire

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