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Madoff's Prison Number Is A Lottery Winner
At least someone got something out of the Bernie Madoff affair.
Ralph Amendolaro of Queens, New York, used the confessed Ponzi schemer's prison number to play the lottery, after seeing it on the front page of the New York Daily News earlier this month. And a few days later, that number -- 61727-054 -- came up, winning the lucky construction worker $1500.
Amendolaro told the Daily News that he thought at the time: "I'm going to be a winner with this guy even though everyone lost money with him. Somebody had to get a little lucky with him."
He said he plans to spend some of the money on a birthday trip to Vegas with his wife and some friends, and also to take his family out to dinner.
And he added that if Madoff hears about it, "he'll probably want a cut."
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Zachary
A fancy dinner for the family and a trip from New York to Las Vegas? All on $1500?
This guy is way better at handling money than Madoff ever was.
March 24, 2009 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oceanic flight 617, now boarding at gate 27, seating passengers in rows 048 through 056. Please present your boarding pass to the gate agent, and have a pleasant flight...
March 24, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
You know who else is lucky?
Doris Bachenheimer, Margaret Shevlin Cheung and Simona Kanevswki Suh, the SEC's crack Madoff investigation team. With the AIG fiasco grabbing the financial headlines, their role in the Madoff scandal is not being scrutinized as closely as it should be.
The Madoffs were trying to hide a $50 billion fraud from the SEC. No one can rule out bribery simply because someone is a "nice" person who everyone knows would never do anything bad. That's what they said about Bernie.
Shana Madoff and Margaret Shevlin Cheung both graduated Fordham Law circa '97 or '98. Did they know each other in school? Did they socialize before, during or after the investigation?
Simona Kanevski Suh graduated Fordham Law in '01. In 2007, she landed an adjunct position teaching remedial reading to Fordham Law students in 2007.
Peter B. Madoff, a '67 Fordham Law grad, is on the Fordham Law Steering Committee. Did he arrange for Simona Kanevski Suh to get the adjunct slot?
Take it a step further. Ask Simona Kanevski Suh if she is related to Ivan Kanevski, Glyconix CEO. In mid-2006, Glyconix was good to go on a death spiral ipo which apparently was aborted. Who arranged alternative funding that saved the company from a certain demise?
Cheung and Bachenheimer both left the SEC after the Madoff case was ruled a no-starter. I think Cheung is an "independent consultant". Did Bernie or his pals throw her any work after she left the SEC?
Worse, did Bachenheimer and Cheung have any forewarning about what was coming down the pike?
March 24, 2009 5:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Correction: Doria Bachenheimer, Meaghan Shevlin Cheung and Simona Kanevski Suh, the SEC's crack Madoff investigative team.
(I shouldn't post when I'm seeing red.)
March 24, 2009 8:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Doria Stech Bachenheimer. She knows how to audit for fraud. Why didn't she?
March 24, 2009 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
This kind of thing just makes me more of an atheist than I was last week.
March 25, 2009 11:32 AM | Reply | Permalink