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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Palm Beach

Palm Beach stories: 16 news summaries
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 Inside the Madoff Homes 

The government prepares to auction off the Ponzi penthouse

Sep 9, 09 8:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - America’s most luxurious crime scene is for sale. The US Marshals Service will auction off Bernie Madoff’s 4,000-square-foot Manhattan penthouse duplex this week, and it gave AP photographers a look inside the premises, which Madoff valued at $7 million. For photos of the swank pad, along with... More »

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real estate • Manhattan • Palm Beach • Bernard Madoff

(Newser) - An elderly woman suffered a heart attack and died today on an AirTran flight from New York to Palm Beach, Fla., WNYW-TV reports. The plane diverted to Philadelphia in an attempt to save the 80-year-old but was too late, BNO News adds. “There was a doctor on board who... More »

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elderly • Philadelphia • heart attack • Westchester • AirTran • Palm Beach • airline passengers • airplane

 Mineral Overdose Killed 
 Polo Horses: Officials 

Selenium overdose likely claimed animals' lives

Apr 28, 09 3:03 PM CDT
(AP) - Florida officials say a mineral overdose is the probable cause of death for 21 Venezuelan-owned polo horses that fell ill as they prepared for a championship match earlier this month. The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said today the animals likely overdosed on selenium, a common mineral that... More »

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Florida • Venezuela • horse • Palm Beach • Department of Agriculture • polo • Lechuza Caracas

(Newser) - While seizing Bernie Madoff's Palm Beach possessions yesterday, US Marshals got an eyeful of the fraudster's home furnishings, reports the Palm Beach Post. And they weren't impressed. "I've never seen so much bull in my life," said one deputy. "Pictures of bulls, bull statues, even bulls on... More »

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Florida • fraud • crime • bulls • Palm Beach • U.S. Marshals Service • Bernard Madoff • Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

 Feds Grab Madoff Mansion 

$11M Palm Beach pad will be sold to pay pack Ponzi scheme victims

Apr 2, 09 1:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Federal authorities seized Bernard Madoff's Florida mansion yesterday shortly after confiscating his two yachts, the New York Daily News reports. US marshals and Palm Beach police took over the five-bedroom $11 million mansion—which is in Ruth Madoff's name—as part of an effort to seize as many Madoff assets... More »

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Ponzi scheme • Palm Beach • securities fraud • Bernard Madoff • Ruth Madoff

(Newser) - Bernard Madoff’s alleged mega-fraud and the large number of Jewish investors he apparently snookered is stoking anti-Semitic feeling in tony Palm Beach, ABC News reports. “It is a terrible thing to say, but some of the WASPs are delighted, they take great pleasure in this,” said an... More »

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philanthropy • fraud • Judaism • investment • Ponzi scheme • Palm Beach • anti-Semitism • scandal • Bernard Madoff • charitable giving

 Trust Fund Teens 
 TP Madoff Mansion 

Pranksters blast accused swindler for wiping out future fortunes

Jan 27, 09 2:21 AM CST
(Newser) - Pranksters whose future fortunes were battered by accused swindler Bernard Madofff festooned his tony Palm Beach digs with toilet paper over the weekend, reports the Palm Beach Post. Teenage boys called the newspaper to claim responsibility for the guerrilla tactic and blasted Madoff for wiping out their trust funds. The... More »

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fraud • toilet paper • prank • defrauding customers • Palm Beach • teenager • Bernard Madoff

ANALYSIS

Madoff Ruse Exploited
Palm Beach's Clubby Ways

Swindler exploited ritzy Palm Beach culture to bilk investors

Jan 3, 09 3:08 PM CST
(Newser) - You have to give it to Bernie Madoff: The Ponzi pirate wasn’t your average fraudster, Daniel Gross observes in Slate. Look no further than Palm Beach, which was "ground zero" of his scheme. Madoff got where he did by “fiendishly exploiting the unique, clubby culture" of the... More »

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Florida • fraud • Ponzi scheme • Palm Beach • investor • Bernard Madoff

 Tables Turn:
 Madoff Gets
 Ripped Off 

Thieves rip-off investment fraudster

Dec 28, 08 7:19 PM CST
(Newser) - In a bit of poetic justice, a thief stole an expensive statue from the Palm Beach estate of Bernard Madoff last week, the New York Post reports. Burglars took a $10,000 copper statue depicting two lifeguards from the fraudster accused of losing $50 billion of investors’ money in a... More »

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fraud • theft • statue • Ponzi scheme • Palm Beach • investor • defrauding investors • Bernard Madoff

Madoff Crony Harangued at Tony Fla. Club

Jaffe nearly fights with furious bilked investor
at black-tie bash

Dec 19, 08 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Bob Jaffe, who recruited many of the marks for Bernard Madoff’s $50 billion fraud operation, got an earful after showing up last weekend at a Palm Beach party brimming with Madoff’s victims, a source tells the New York Post. When one saw Jaffe, “it nearly came to... More »

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fraud • Donald Trump • party • Ponzi scheme • Palm Beach • defrauding investors • Bernard Madoff

 Bernie Madoff, 
 Gentleman 
 of Leisure 

Inside the personal life of America's favorite scam artist

Dec 17, 08 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Bernard Madoff maintained a very public life, and, like a perfect con man, no one thought he was capable of the crimes he stands accused of. Two weeks ago he popped into his  barber shop for his usual haircut, shave, mani, and pedi. “For me, he was a gentleman,... More »

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Ponzi scheme • Palm Beach • financial crisis • Bernard Madoff

Candidate's
Klan Ties Roil Florida Race

Klansman's teenage
son is disqualified
on a technicality

Dec 12, 08 12:54 PM CST
(Newser) - In a big year for race in politics, a 19-year-old’s election to—and ban from—Palm Beach’s Republican committee has hate groups and their opponents up in arms far beyond Florida, the New York Times reports. Voters chose Derek Black, the son of a noted Klansman who made... More »

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Florida • Ku Klux Klan • white supremacism • Palm Beach • disputed election

Mistress Got Hush Money From 'More Moral' Fla. Rep.

Foley's successor ponied up $121K

Oct 13, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Maybe it’s Florida? Two years have passed since Mark Foley, Palm Beach’s Republican Congressman, was forced to resign after sending lewd messages to male pages. His successor, Democrat Tim Mahoney, who ran on a ticket of “restoring America’s values,” gave a former mistress $121,000... More »

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Florida • Congress • sex scandal • Mark Foley • Palm Beach • Tim Mahoney • extramarital affair • Patricia Allen

 Trump Sells Mansion for $100M 

US real estate record for the Donald's Palm Beach estate

Jul 17, 08 10:08 AM CDT
(AP) - The real estate market may be slumping, but not for Donald Trump, who sold his Palm Beach mansion to a Russian fertilizer billionaire for $100 million, the AP reports. It's the most ever paid for a US estate, a spokesman claims. "In an age of so many people getting... More »

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real estate • Donald Trump • Celebrity Apprentice • Palm Beach • mansion • Dmitry Rybolovlev • Kendra Todd

Fireman Dead
in Fla. Wendy's Shooting

Unemployed gunman injured 5 others before taking own life

Mar 3, 08 8:00 PM CST
(Newser) - A gunman killed a local firefighter and wounded five others in a West Palm Beach Wendy's today before taking his own life, the Palm Beach Post reports. Shooter Alburn Edward Blake left no suicide note but was said by one witness to be an ex-worker at the restaurant. "Looks... More »

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Florida • suicide • crime • murder-suicide • homicide • Wendy's • Palm Beach • shooting • gun violence

Police: War Hero Preys on  Neighbor

Elderly Holocaust survivor swindled, abandoned in Poland

Feb 19, 08 4:55 PM CST
(Newser) - A Holocaust hero who with his brothers saved 1,200 Jews in one of the largest  armed rescues during World War II is accused of bilking a survivor of about $250,000, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Aron Bell dumped a 93-year-old Catholic survivor at a nursing home in Poland... More »

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Poland • Holocaust • survivors • Palm Beach • hero

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