Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Bernard Madoff, president of Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, a market maker for hedge funds and banks, was charged with securities fraud by federal prosecutors in New York in a scheme that totaled more than $20 billion, according to a person familiar with the case. Madoff was arrested today by the FBI [...]

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  FROM THE NEW YORK POSTTalk about “designer drugs.” Two well-heeled Fashion Institute of Technology coeds who are regulars on the Chelsea club scene were busted last night for running a coke ring from their dorm, police sources said. Christine Scafa, 22, of Princeton Junction, NJ, and Mickenzie Dippenworth, 21, of Bel Air, Md., are [...]

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 I do not know if I believe this man gave up drinking at the age of 40.  I have seen this dude on television, and I really believe he is still “boozing” it.  But, whatever, if he wants to tell people he is sober, I guess he has to right to do that. From CNN [...]

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 For those of us who live up North, we do not see the big deal with a little bit of snow in New Orleans. Okay, so New Orleans is in the South, I get that part, but what gives with everything shutting down because of a little snow.  After all, New Orleans is in the [...]

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Concrete fell on four construction workers while they were working in a pit in Times Square earlier today. According to authorities, workers were digging a pit for a new subway entrance in Times Square when concrete from an adjacent 35-story office building that is under construction fell and struck four of the  subway workers.    One [...]

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