Archive for September 4th, 2009

Report shows investigators botched Madoff probes (AP)

Written by on Friday, September 4th, 2009 in Latest News.

AP – Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff tried by turns to bully and impress the federal examiners who looked into his business, but the investigators managed by themselves to botch the probes and enable Madoff’s multibillion-dollar fraud to continue for nearly two decades, a new report shows.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

Man who called 911 charged with mobile home deaths (AP)

Written by on Friday, September 4th, 2009 in 420700.

In this photo released on Sunday Aug. 30, 2009 by the Glynn County Police Department, Guy Heinze Jr. is shown. Heinze Jr., 22, who called 911 to report finding seven people slain in a dingy mobile home on a historic Georgia plantation, was arrested late Saturday and charged with illegal possession of prescription drugs and marijuana, tampering with evidence and making false statements to police, Glynn County Police Chief Matt Doering said.  (AP Photo/Glynn County Police Department)AP – A man who told authorities “My whole family’s dead!” in a frantic 911 call was charged Friday with killing the eight people attacked in his family’s Georgia mobile home.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back

SEC report shows repeated bungling of Madoff probe (AP)

Written by on Friday, September 4th, 2009 in 314785.

FILE - In this March 10, 2009 file photo, Bernard Madoff exits Manhattan federal court in New York. The watchdog of the Securities and Exchange Commission has found that the agency consistently mishandled its investigations of Bernard Madoff's business, despite ample warnings of the multibillion-dollar fraud, according to a report released Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano, file)AP – The official at the Securities and Exchange Commission who later would marry Bernard Madoff’s niece told investigators this year that if he had carefully reviewed a complaint about the disgraced financier’s business, he would have investigated more deeply, a new report shows.

Original post by AP and software by Elliott Back



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