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	<title>Comments on: A Ponzi Scheme that is Bigger than Bernard Madoff&#8217;s</title>
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		<title>By: Jason R. Mullings</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-143429</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason R. Mullings</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(1.)7 Star &#8211; Graphics Service Team<br />
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		<title>By: truth&#38;justice</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-139196</link>
		<dc:creator>truth&#38;justice</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I thought, if a company is publicly listed in the NYSE, it could not be running or can not run a PYRAMID SCHEME? Madoff Investment Securities, a publicly listed NYSE company, was able to run a pyramid scheme ? How did that happen? What is the purpose of being listed in NYSE?

I am asking this question, because for us non-millionaires, living in Asia, being recruited by NU SKIN , for what looks like a pyramid scheme, NU SKIN people are saying that any company publicly listed in NYSE can not be running a pyramid scheme. 

Please investigate NU SKIN, and their deceptive marketing strategies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought, if a company is publicly listed in the NYSE, it could not be running or can not run a PYRAMID SCHEME? Madoff Investment Securities, a publicly listed NYSE company, was able to run a pyramid scheme ? How did that happen? What is the purpose of being listed in NYSE?</p>
<p>I am asking this question, because for us non-millionaires, living in Asia, being recruited by NU SKIN , for what looks like a pyramid scheme, NU SKIN people are saying that any company publicly listed in NYSE can not be running a pyramid scheme. </p>
<p>Please investigate NU SKIN, and their deceptive marketing strategies.</p>
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		<title>By: Alice Westbrook Fowler</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-132688</link>
		<dc:creator>Alice Westbrook Fowler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Although I am a 71-year-old noninvestor who knows relatively little about the financial markets, I have for years been wondering how certain far-out activities reported by the media could be allowed in our country, where there are laws against fraud and many agencies exist that are charged with checking up on matters involving money.  Now, sadly, I know, and I know I was right to be amazed at what I heard.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Although I am a 71-year-old noninvestor who knows relatively little about the financial markets, I have for years been wondering how certain far-out activities reported by the media could be allowed in our country, where there are laws against fraud and many agencies exist that are charged with checking up on matters involving money.  Now, sadly, I know, and I know I was right to be amazed at what I heard.</p>
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		<title>By: Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-132317</link>
		<dc:creator>Truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Could someone explain to me how money is made selling a naked short position?

So I assume a stock is going to go down in value...so I sell a naked short? Then what?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Could someone explain to me how money is made selling a naked short position?</p>
<p>So I assume a stock is going to go down in value&#8230;so I sell a naked short? Then what?</p>
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		<title>By: Steven Leitner</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-128589</link>
		<dc:creator>Steven Leitner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Madoff is only the tip of the iceberg. I lost big money if two companies that went bankrupt due to naked short selling. Naked short selling is a license to steal. No one can withstand the continued use of borrowed funds to naked short a relatively small company. Take any company that pays a substantial dividend. Who buys dividends? Small investors, retired investors, little people. These dividend payers do not have large investors so they are the best companies to drive out of business with the naked short technique. Just keep selling. At first the little guys buy more stock because they think it has become a bargain. Just keep naked short selling. Soon the little guys have spent all their money buying the bargain stock. Now, the stock starts to drop based upon the naked shorts. Soon all the charts look very negative. Eventually the little guys get scared and start the snow-ball effectd of real selling. The stock is &#039;helped&#039; down whenever it tries to rally by additional naked short selling. Soon the price per share is so low that the Company cannot use its own stock to raise money. Now comes the loss of profits, lack of financing, and soon the insolvency. All this was pre-ordained by the rich naked short sellers who knew in advance the pattern that would make them rich. The naked shorts do not have to declare their profits on the stock to the IRS because they do not consider their positions &#039;Closed&#039; until they settle-up their short position. If the company gets insolvent and closes its doors, no formal bankruptcy, then the naked shorts probably never declare the position closed and never pay any income tax. Probably all legal with the crooked IRS. The IRS is also too busy auditing the records of the moms and pops who lost all their retirement savings in the naked short scam.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Madoff is only the tip of the iceberg. I lost big money if two companies that went bankrupt due to naked short selling. Naked short selling is a license to steal. No one can withstand the continued use of borrowed funds to naked short a relatively small company. Take any company that pays a substantial dividend. Who buys dividends? Small investors, retired investors, little people. These dividend payers do not have large investors so they are the best companies to drive out of business with the naked short technique. Just keep selling. At first the little guys buy more stock because they think it has become a bargain. Just keep naked short selling. Soon the little guys have spent all their money buying the bargain stock. Now, the stock starts to drop based upon the naked shorts. Soon all the charts look very negative. Eventually the little guys get scared and start the snow-ball effectd of real selling. The stock is &#8216;helped&#8217; down whenever it tries to rally by additional naked short selling. Soon the price per share is so low that the Company cannot use its own stock to raise money. Now comes the loss of profits, lack of financing, and soon the insolvency. All this was pre-ordained by the rich naked short sellers who knew in advance the pattern that would make them rich. The naked shorts do not have to declare their profits on the stock to the IRS because they do not consider their positions &#8216;Closed&#8217; until they settle-up their short position. If the company gets insolvent and closes its doors, no formal bankruptcy, then the naked shorts probably never declare the position closed and never pay any income tax. Probably all legal with the crooked IRS. The IRS is also too busy auditing the records of the moms and pops who lost all their retirement savings in the naked short scam.</p>
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		<title>By: troutback</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-128246</link>
		<dc:creator>troutback</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll supply the rope, the oak tree, and chair.  These naked shorting fraudsters don&#039;t deserve any better.

You wonder why so many start up companies never had a chance at success.

tb</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll supply the rope, the oak tree, and chair.  These naked shorting fraudsters don&#8217;t deserve any better.</p>
<p>You wonder why so many start up companies never had a chance at success.</p>
<p>tb</p>
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		<title>By: mhelburn</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-127698</link>
		<dc:creator>mhelburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Something smells.  Ponzi is so low class, but easily understood and doesn&#039;t raise the ire that money laundering implies.   Better to lump it altogether and claim that the money he took in had been paid out to old investors.  Madoff had 10% of the trading business.  If there is money laundering on Wall Street, he did 10% of it.. pure stats.    Every trade is now open to discovery.   He was paying for order flow, yet was trading himself on other venues?    He has an office full of traders, and doesn&#039;t have a Chinese Wall if he is doing trades himself.  

The whole point of having Madoff hold the assets and manage it for the big funds was that they could collect fees for  them doing nothing.  How much was he charging and how much were they charging their investors?    The money would be used up rapidly if he were charging large fees and paying out gains so that the funds&#039; managers could get their cut.  

It would be interesting to see how much the funds were running through the broker in trades besides what was in the funds.  How much money was actually transferred in and taken back out?   Was there money actually transferred in or were these trades just bogus to cover up dirty money?   As a market maker, he could book trades by  naked shorting and do the reverse at a lower price, pocket the difference and no money ever trade, just giving the client a trade to explain the appearance of  a loss and an explanation of the money having come from a brokerage account that was established.   Chasing down where the money came from would be obliterated by the presence of a fund and stock trades.  

He traded a trillion dollars a year.. so these bogus money laundering things possibly in the millions wouldn&#039;t hit the radar, particularly if they didn&#039;t trade on the US exchanges or were only ledger entries with an accompanying  account statement in paper.    All of his foreign counterparty trades need scrutiny.   The fact that he was instrumental in computerizing the market and didn&#039;t allow his clients computer access to the accounts is suspicious.  His going to cash every quarter so that he didn&#039;t have to report positions is also ripe for fraud.  He couldn&#039;t do all of this alone.    By not allowing people access to their accounts, he had plenty of time to figure out post market what trades to record.    If people  had online access to their accounts, he would have real time scrutiny.   

He could even show a profit for these guy&#039;s trades if they paid him more than the amount of the transaction.   They want to launder 2 million sending him 100K through a backdoor, he does a trade that shows they bought at 1.85 and sold at 1.9.  On another set of books, he does his own trade at 1.9 and sells for 2 booking 100K for the firm.  The entire amount has been laundered,  The fund pays taxes on 50K and he pays taxes on 100K.  They only pay taxes on 7.5% of the total.. and everyone is happy.   The taxman gets his.. Broker actually makes about 65K after taxes for fabricating two transactions.  The cost of laundering is 100K plus taxes or 6%. Neither gain is so great as to raise suspicion  and can be done after the fact finding the right stock that would meet the appropriate price fluctuations.    

Fact: We have a self-confessed  crook.

Fact: Crook trades 10% of the volume..

Fact:  Securities market is used for money laundering.  

Rational Assumption? Madoff was responsible for at least 10% of the money laundering.  

This becomes even more questionable with all the lies about integrity and success that this was included in Madoff&#039;s home page. 



  &quot; IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROCEDURES FOR OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT

To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. 

What this means for you: When you open an account, we will ask for your name, address, date of birth and other information that will allow us to identify you. We may also ask to see your driver’s license or other identifying documents.&quot;

By taking in funds of funds, this can be avoided.   Just the manager of the fund is recorded... hmmmm.... interesting.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Something smells.  Ponzi is so low class, but easily understood and doesn&#8217;t raise the ire that money laundering implies.   Better to lump it altogether and claim that the money he took in had been paid out to old investors.  Madoff had 10% of the trading business.  If there is money laundering on Wall Street, he did 10% of it.. pure stats.    Every trade is now open to discovery.   He was paying for order flow, yet was trading himself on other venues?    He has an office full of traders, and doesn&#8217;t have a Chinese Wall if he is doing trades himself.  </p>
<p>The whole point of having Madoff hold the assets and manage it for the big funds was that they could collect fees for  them doing nothing.  How much was he charging and how much were they charging their investors?    The money would be used up rapidly if he were charging large fees and paying out gains so that the funds&#8217; managers could get their cut.  </p>
<p>It would be interesting to see how much the funds were running through the broker in trades besides what was in the funds.  How much money was actually transferred in and taken back out?   Was there money actually transferred in or were these trades just bogus to cover up dirty money?   As a market maker, he could book trades by  naked shorting and do the reverse at a lower price, pocket the difference and no money ever trade, just giving the client a trade to explain the appearance of  a loss and an explanation of the money having come from a brokerage account that was established.   Chasing down where the money came from would be obliterated by the presence of a fund and stock trades.  </p>
<p>He traded a trillion dollars a year.. so these bogus money laundering things possibly in the millions wouldn&#8217;t hit the radar, particularly if they didn&#8217;t trade on the US exchanges or were only ledger entries with an accompanying  account statement in paper.    All of his foreign counterparty trades need scrutiny.   The fact that he was instrumental in computerizing the market and didn&#8217;t allow his clients computer access to the accounts is suspicious.  His going to cash every quarter so that he didn&#8217;t have to report positions is also ripe for fraud.  He couldn&#8217;t do all of this alone.    By not allowing people access to their accounts, he had plenty of time to figure out post market what trades to record.    If people  had online access to their accounts, he would have real time scrutiny.   </p>
<p>He could even show a profit for these guy&#8217;s trades if they paid him more than the amount of the transaction.   They want to launder 2 million sending him 100K through a backdoor, he does a trade that shows they bought at 1.85 and sold at 1.9.  On another set of books, he does his own trade at 1.9 and sells for 2 booking 100K for the firm.  The entire amount has been laundered,  The fund pays taxes on 50K and he pays taxes on 100K.  They only pay taxes on 7.5% of the total.. and everyone is happy.   The taxman gets his.. Broker actually makes about 65K after taxes for fabricating two transactions.  The cost of laundering is 100K plus taxes or 6%. Neither gain is so great as to raise suspicion  and can be done after the fact finding the right stock that would meet the appropriate price fluctuations.    </p>
<p>Fact: We have a self-confessed  crook.</p>
<p>Fact: Crook trades 10% of the volume..</p>
<p>Fact:  Securities market is used for money laundering.  </p>
<p>Rational Assumption? Madoff was responsible for at least 10% of the money laundering.  </p>
<p>This becomes even more questionable with all the lies about integrity and success that this was included in Madoff&#8217;s home page. </p>
<p>  &#8221; IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROCEDURES FOR OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT</p>
<p>To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an account. </p>
<p>What this means for you: When you open an account, we will ask for your name, address, date of birth and other information that will allow us to identify you. We may also ask to see your driver’s license or other identifying documents.&#8221;</p>
<p>By taking in funds of funds, this can be avoided.   Just the manager of the fund is recorded&#8230; hmmmm&#8230;. interesting.</p>
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		<title>By: theone23ord</title>
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		<dc:creator>theone23ord</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 06:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>iamthewitness.com
wakeupfromyourslumber.com
whatreallyhappened.com
infowars.com</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>iamthewitness.com<br />
wakeupfromyourslumber.com<br />
whatreallyhappened.com<br />
infowars.com</p>
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		<title>By: skoov</title>
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		<dc:creator>skoov</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who gets the movie rights?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who gets the movie rights?</p>
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		<title>By: bob</title>
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		<dc:creator>bob</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>People &amp; Power - Rigged Markets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z66kmPRl5Y</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People &amp; Power &#8211; Rigged Markets</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z66kmPRl5Y" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z66kmPRl5Y</a></p>
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		<title>By: ponzi</title>
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		<dc:creator>ponzi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The Madoff Exception&quot;

http://www.chx.com/content/Participant_Information/Downloadable_Docs/MarketRegulation/1_InformationMemoranda/2004/MR_04_26_Regulation_SHO.pdf

Regulation SHO, Rule 200 - Order Marking and Ownership

SEC Rule 200(g) defines the ownership of securities with regard to short sale transactions previously enumerated under SEC Rules 3b-3 and 10a-1(d). Pursuant to the provisions of SEC Rule 200, all sales of equity securities must be marked &quot;long&quot;, &quot;short&quot;, or &quot;short exempt&quot;.

Orders can be marked &quot;long&quot; only when the seller owns the security being sold, and such security is in the physical possession or control of the broker-dealer, or it is reasonably expected that the security will be in the physical possession or control of the broker-dealer prior to settlement.

Orders must be marked &quot;short exempt&quot; if the seller is entitled to rely upon any exception to the tick test under SEC Rule 10a-1 and Exchange Article IX, Rule 17. Short sale transactions involving a specialist pursuant to the so-called “Madoff” exception or the equalizing exemption under SEC Rule 10a-1(e)(5) (sales by specialist or market maker on a zero-minus tick), however, need not be marked as “short exempt.” Orders marked &quot;short exempt&quot; must also comply with the stock locate requirements detailed in SEC Rule 203 below, unless some exception applies...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;The Madoff Exception&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.chx.com/content/Participant_Information/Downloadable_Docs/MarketRegulation/1_InformationMemoranda/2004/MR_04_26_Regulation_SHO.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.chx.com/content/Participant_Information/Downloadable_Docs/MarketRegulation/1_InformationMemoranda/2004/MR_04_26_Regulation_SHO.pdf</a></p>
<p>Regulation SHO, Rule 200 &#8211; Order Marking and Ownership</p>
<p>SEC Rule 200(g) defines the ownership of securities with regard to short sale transactions previously enumerated under SEC Rules 3b-3 and 10a-1(d). Pursuant to the provisions of SEC Rule 200, all sales of equity securities must be marked &#8220;long&#8221;, &#8220;short&#8221;, or &#8220;short exempt&#8221;.</p>
<p>Orders can be marked &#8220;long&#8221; only when the seller owns the security being sold, and such security is in the physical possession or control of the broker-dealer, or it is reasonably expected that the security will be in the physical possession or control of the broker-dealer prior to settlement.</p>
<p>Orders must be marked &#8220;short exempt&#8221; if the seller is entitled to rely upon any exception to the tick test under SEC Rule 10a-1 and Exchange Article IX, Rule 17. Short sale transactions involving a specialist pursuant to the so-called “Madoff” exception or the equalizing exemption under SEC Rule 10a-1(e)(5) (sales by specialist or market maker on a zero-minus tick), however, need not be marked as “short exempt.” Orders marked &#8220;short exempt&#8221; must also comply with the stock locate requirements detailed in SEC Rule 203 below, unless some exception applies&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: ponzi</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-127093</link>
		<dc:creator>ponzi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The same brokerages that are all going under:

http://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-12-06/s71206-149.pdf

As what has become a pattern of the SEC, the investing public is not given equal face time to openly discuss matters/analysis with the Commission as is frequently being afforded to the institutions the Commission is responsible for regulating; a double standard that puts in question the Commissions true motives. [Ref: The SEC’s Documented Memorandums to meetings held during the inception of Regulation SHO with the Securities Industry Association, National Service Clearing Corporation, Bear Stearns, Madoff Investment Securities, Hill Thompson, Citigroup Global Markets, and LEK Securities Corp http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303.shtml ]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The same brokerages that are all going under:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-12-06/s71206-149.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-12-06/s71206-149.pdf</a></p>
<p>As what has become a pattern of the SEC, the investing public is not given equal face time to openly discuss matters/analysis with the Commission as is frequently being afforded to the institutions the Commission is responsible for regulating; a double standard that puts in question the Commissions true motives. [Ref: The SEC’s Documented Memorandums to meetings held during the inception of Regulation SHO with the Securities Industry Association, National Service Clearing Corporation, Bear Stearns, Madoff Investment Securities, Hill Thompson, Citigroup Global Markets, and LEK Securities Corp <a href="http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303.shtml</a> ]</p>
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		<title>By: ponzi</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-127087</link>
		<dc:creator>ponzi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Private Madoff conference call on SHO with SEC.

http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303/s72303-431.pdf

Once considered a radical practice but only a minor source of inefficiency, payments for
order flow – agreements by which dealers offer monetary rewards or other non-pecuniary
services to brokers in exchange for the routing of retail market bid or ask offers116 — have
become a core regulatory concern. The controversy became prominent in 1993, when Madoff
Investments mysteriously garnered 10% of NYSE-listed volume through a legal “kickback”
scheme that permitted brokers to increase personal revenues without obtaining the consent of
their clients.117

http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s71004/jdmt011405.pdf</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Private Madoff conference call on SHO with SEC.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303/s72303-431.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303/s72303-431.pdf</a></p>
<p>Once considered a radical practice but only a minor source of inefficiency, payments for<br />
order flow – agreements by which dealers offer monetary rewards or other non-pecuniary<br />
services to brokers in exchange for the routing of retail market bid or ask offers116 — have<br />
become a core regulatory concern. The controversy became prominent in 1993, when Madoff<br />
Investments mysteriously garnered 10% of NYSE-listed volume through a legal “kickback”<br />
scheme that permitted brokers to increase personal revenues without obtaining the consent of<br />
their clients.117</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s71004/jdmt011405.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s71004/jdmt011405.pdf</a></p>
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		<title>By: ponzi</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-127078</link>
		<dc:creator>ponzi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Letter from Madoff on SHO.

http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303/s72303-284.pdf</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Letter from Madoff on SHO.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303/s72303-284.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/s72303/s72303-284.pdf</a></p>
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		<title>By: vexas</title>
		<link>http://www.deepcapture.com/a-ponzi-scheme-that-is-bigger-than-bernies/comment-page-1/#comment-127044</link>
		<dc:creator>vexas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:47:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for sorting through all the garbage.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for sorting through all the garbage.</p>
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