With the massive swindling and malfeasance in public office of late I'm trimming the wick in my lantern and planning going door to door in search of an honest man. OK, my flashlight then.
Notable by their absence are women. Are they more honest or not just powerful/rich enough?
It's so terrifying and discouraging to see one's life savings go up in smoke. I'm wondering what my reaction would be?
Lost mine in crash of the late eighties, $245K, now it's under the mattress $8.27.
Here`s a woman crook for ya
January 26, 2009
Madoffs Little Helper Makes $2.1 Billion Disappears
Filed under: Civil Rights @ 2:18 am
by Ian Mosley
The details from the great Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme just keep getting more interesting. Looks like Bernie had a number of accomplices. One of the more aggressive was a Jewish woman, Sonje Kohn, who is currently in hiding after ripping off certain big and powerful Russians (possibly including the Russian mafia).
The New York Times reports: With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, Sonja Kohn made few friends gathering billions for Bernard L. Madoff from wealthy investors in Russia and across Europe. Now, she has even fewer. Mrs. Kohn has dropped out of sight, leaving the firm she founded, Bank Medici, in the hands of Austrian regulators, who took it over last week
Embarrassment from investing heavily with Mr. Madoff could explain wanting to disappear from public view. But another theory widely repeated by those who know Mrs. Kohn is that she may be afraid of some particularly displeased investors: Russian oligarchs whose money made up a chunk of the $2.1 billion that Bank Medici invested with Mr. Madoff.
The Russian oligarchs assumed control of the Russian economy in the 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed and Russias assets were privatized. A few oligarchs are believed to be tied in with organized crime.
The Times article continues With Russian oligarchs as clients, said a Viennese banker who knew Mrs. Kohn and her husband socially, she might have reason to be afraid. It was a view shared in interviews with Mrs. Kohns fellow bankers, former employees and other associates from Vienna to London to Geneva to Monsey, N.Y. Few of those who know her were willing to be quoted by name because they feared being linked to the scandal surrounding Mr. Madoff as well as the investigations into his alleged fraud. But several people with knowledge of her personal and professional dealings say she became concerned about retribution by Russian investors after Mr. Madoffs arrest last month. Russias richest men have been especially strapped as commodity prices and their stock market have collapsed.
Perhaps Sonje will never be seen again, but her wig may turn up floating in the Volga River.
In case anyone had any doubts about Ms. Kohns heritage, the Times notes It is a stunning reversal for the 60-year-old Mrs. Kohn. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe who moved to Vienna after World War II, she came to New York in the 1980s and was one of the rare women to found and head a small brokerage firm. At that time, she started a decades-long friendship with Mr. Madoff. Once known here as Austrias woman on Wall Street, she became one of Mr. Madoffs international conduits for securing billions of dollars from the global rich.
This is what is so insidious about Madoff and dealing with Jews in general. You trust one Jew with your money, and he or she gives it to other Jews whom you dont know, never heard of, and theyre the ones who embezzle everything or run a Ponzi scheme and then flee to Israel. Never, ever trust Jews in ANYTHING! How many centuries will it take for us to learn this basic rule of life?
