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Same investigator overlooked Garrido and Madoff

Same investigator overlooked Garrido and Madoff

By Editors, The Skunk • on September 2, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO – The same government investigator who failed to uncover the massive Ponzi scheme perpetrated by convicted Wall Street scammer Bernard Madoff, also neglected to notice the backyard sex prison operated by paroled rapist Phillip Garrido. Halgern Zarrington,

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Ponzi Heirs sue Madoff for Infringement

Ponzi Heirs sue Madoff for Infringement

By Editors, The Skunk • on February 23, 2009

NEW YORK — Descendants of legendary scammer Charles Ponzi (1882-1949) sued Bernard Madoff today for infringing on the rights to their patriarch’s proprietary system of bilking money from innocent investors. A so-called “Ponzi Scheme” uses money obtained from new investors

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Madoff asks government for money to pay off earlier investors

Madoff asks government for money to pay off earlier investors

By Editors, The Skunk • on December 22, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC — Wall Street investment manager Bernard Madoff appeared before a congressional committee Monday to ask for $60 billion to reimburse investors who have lost money with his firm in what appears to have been a massive Ponzi scam. A contrite Madoff expressed his regret at the pain caused

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Republican Scientists Claim Gravity a Scam

Republican Scientists Claim Gravity a Scam

By Editors, The Skunk • on November 27, 2008

The Republican National Committee’s Scientific Advisory Board today issued a report negating claims of an “invisible force that pulls things toward the center of the Earth.” “Sheer nonsense,”

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McCain to Balance Budget with Nigerian Advance-Fee Plan

McCain to Balance Budget with Nigerian Advance-Fee Plan

By Editors, The Skunk • on May 10, 2008

WASHINGTON, DC — Senator John McCain announced an unexpected windfall profit is headed our way and he will use it to pay off the national debt. “I received an urgent, photocopied letter from Doctor Willobee Ogu, the president of the Bank of Nigeria,

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