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By Carolyn Elefant (index)
Did Bernie Madoff have the perfect Ponzi scheme? Perhaps not, because in the end, Madoff was caught. But for a while he had a good thing going. That's because Ponzi scheme (where returns are paid to investors out of money...
Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).

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