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Even though that income is phantom income that Madoff didn’t really earn, Fairfield and Century are booking it as $100 million of income. ’ So they are able to take the twenty percent performance fee out of that $100 million in real, actual dollars,” Mulholland explained. ” Mulholland continued: “If you multiply this out over a period of years and years, you will see that Fairfield was able to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in performance fees, using accrual accounting to its advantage, and taking those fees based on bogus, fictitious income that no one had really earned.

I don’t believe it is the government’s responsibility to bail out the Madoff investors. It’s bad enough we have to give to the automobile companies and everybody else. ” Gary Tobin, somewhat of a contrarian on the issue, maintained that “The way the story is being told in the Jewish community is that this is a person who was very involved in Jewish organizational life and is seen through the lens of the Jewish community, when, in fact, he is a former chairman of NASDAQ and was involved in financial and communal institutions of all kinds.

Everybody was interested in getting to know him. ” “Everybody in Palm Beach is quite upset,” Meyer said. “A lot of people did not understand what Madoff was doing, so they did not involve themselves. ” “Palm Beach is devastated beyond imagination,” said Lawrence Leamer, noting that “Even before [the news about] Madoff struck, most people I know had lost about half of what they had, so the stores were already empty, people were already depressed. Madoff has taken it to another level. ” Leamer described an acquaintance “who was worth six hundred million dollars and even before Madoff, his worth was down to five hundred million dollars.

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