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☆ Sam Bankman-Fried considered going on Tucker Carlson's show and railing 'against the woke agenda' after FTX's collapse
  + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The most striking item on the list was going on then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson's show to "come out as a republican." "Talk about how the cartel of lawyers is destroying value and throwing entrepreneurs under the bus in order to cover up the incompetence of lawyers," Bankman-Fried memorialized. Numerous former executives and associates testified that Bankman-Fried commingled funds of FTX customers with Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency trading firm he also controlled. Bankman-Fried wrote that he could highlight that aspect of his political spending on Carlson's show. In another list, Bankman-Fried came up with a list of "Allies."
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☆ How to spot a corporate psychopath and avoid hiring a candidate with sociopathy
  + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Maiya Focht | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Corporate psychopaths are drawn to powerful institutions and good at climbing a corporate ladder. Corporate psychopaths are drawn to positions of power, and may be in your field. He gave a presentation about his most recent research, which posthumously diagnosed Bernie Madoff as a corporate psychopath, this week at the Chelmsford Science Festival. Basically, if you see someone act "totally ruthless in determination to accrue money and power and control," they might be a corporate psychopath, Boddy said. Am Psycho ProductionsBoddy said that issuing more stringent hiring practices could be enough to weed out corporate psychopath candidates in the future.
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☆ Explainer: Who is behind Hindenburg, the company that is shorting Adani?
  + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Carolina Mandl | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
NEW YORK, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Short-seller Hindenburg Research disclosed on Wednesday short positions in India's Adani Group, citing potential stock manipulation and accounting fraud in a report. WHAT IS HINDENBURG RESEARCHFounded in 2017 by Nathan Anderson, Hindenburg Research is a forensic financial research firm which analyses equity, credit and derivatives. On its website, Hindenburg says it looks for "man-made disasters," such as accounting irregularities, mismanagement and undisclosed related-party transactions. After finding potential wrongdoings, Hindenburg usually publishes a report explaining the case and bets against the target company, hoping to make a profit. HOW MANY COMPANIES HAS HINDENBURG TARGETEDHindenburg has flagged potential wrongdoing in at least 16 companies since 2017, according to its website.
☆ Bernie Madoff was a 'sociopath' with no empathy, says documentary director Joe Berlinger
  + stars: | 2023-01-04 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBernie Madoff was a 'sociopath' with no empathy, says documentary director Joe BerlingerJoe Berlinger, series director, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss how Berlinger got access to confidential files regarding Bernie Madoff's deposition, what Berlinger makes of SBF's current situation and more.
☆ 'O.C.' star and crypto critic Ben McKenzie tells lawmakers that the crypto market is the 'largest Ponzi scheme in history'
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Carla Mozée | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The crypto market is the "largest Ponzi scheme in history," actor-turned-crypto critic Ben McKenzie said Wednesday. McKenzie, who co-wrote a book about crypto, testified to the Senate Banking committee about the fall of FTX. McKenzie was referring to financier Madoff who in 2009 was convicted of running a decades-long Ponzi scheme that conned his investors out of $65 billion and which collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis. In my opinion, the cryptocurrency industry represents the largest Ponzi scheme in history," said McKenzie, who co-wrote "Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud". "They have been lied to, in ways both big and small, by a once-seemingly mighty crypto industry whose entire existence in fact depends on misinformation, hype, and yes, fraud."
☆ Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman says the S&P 500 won't hit a new high for a long time - and predicts a US recession and stubborn inflation
  + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Leon Cooperman expects the S&P 500 to eke out mediocre returns for the rest of this decade. The billionaire investor predicts a US recession and stubbornly high inflation. Sign up for our newsletter to get the inside scoop on what traders are talking about — delivered daily to your inbox. "The 4,800 high this year will be the high for quite some time," he said about the benchmark stock index. Rising prices, declining growthA prolonged economic downturn and elevated inflation lie ahead for the US, Cooperman said.
☆ Cathie Wood breaks down FTX, Elon Musk, and Twitter in a new interview. Here are her 9 best quotes.
  + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Phil Rosen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Cathie Wood spoke to Bloomberg on Tuesday in a wide-ranging conversation on crypto, FTX, Elon Musk, and investing. She compared Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, and shared her thoughts on Elon Musk, Twitter, and Tesla. "We do think bitcoin — and you can see through the behavior of the infrastructure it hasn't skipped a beat, not one beat — it's more secure than yesterday, the day before, the day before. "We think bitcoin is coming out of this smelling like a rose." "Think about the amount of data Twitter has, and think about the combination of that and artificial intelligence.
☆ Never seen 'such a complete failure' of corporate controls, says new FTX CEO who also oversaw Enron bankruptcy
  + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
Ray formerly served as the CEO of Enron after the implosion of the energy titan. He promised to work with regulators to investigate FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bankman-Fried." Ray excoriated Bankman-Fried and his management team for what were described as lackadaisical controls on systems and regulatory compliance. Coordinating with regulators, Ray wrote, the chapter 11 bankruptcy process would examine the actions of Bankman-Fried in connection with FTX's collapse.
☆ Kevin Bacon explains how he lost 'most' of his fortune to Bernie Madoff: 'There's obvious life lessons there'
  + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Nicolas Vega | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Kevin Bacon is opening up about how he and his wife lost "most of our money" in Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme. "There's obvious life lessons there," Bacon said. Madoff's massive fraud scheme is estimated to have ripped clients off to the tune of $65 billion. Despite the massive financial hit he took, Bacon admitted that he didn't expect to receive much sympathy for what he experienced. "There's always going to be somebody that's going to have it a lot worse than you."
☆ Another $372 mln on way to Bernie Madoff victims, Justice Dept says
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme can expect to soon receive another $372 million to help cover their losses, the U.S. Justice Department announced on Wednesday, putting total recoveries above $18.5 billion. Payouts to over 27,000 victims will come from the Madoff Victim Fund, a $4.05 billion government fund set up in 2013 and overseen by former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Richard Breeden. Following the latest distribution, the fund's eighth, victims will have received over $4 billion, covering some 88% of their losses, the department said. More than 40,000 claimants have been compensated through the victim fund, the Justice Department said. Another $14.5 billion has been recouped for customers of the former Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC by the court-appointed trustee liquidating that firm in bankruptcy.
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