Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Alleged Madoff fraud has worldwide exposure

In a Connecticut town, local officials scrambled to get a handle on damage to pension funds held for its police officers and firefighters. A Massachusetts charity announced it was shutting down. In New York, a distinguished economist feared he had lost his $2.2 million nestegg.

Damage continued to ripple from the massive fraud allegedly engineered by storied Wall Street money manager Bernard Madoff Monday, even as investigators worked to unravel the scheme's working and its reach.





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