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BadUncle
06/19/09

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What were the rates of return he paid on these CDs (when he paid them)?
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Smitros
04/21/09

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@willow150:

But, alas, he did not put on the condom of fiduciary responsibility.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
04/21/09

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Anyone else read the New Yorker profile of this douchebag?

Apparently a year or two earlier the magazine had sent a reporter to follow him around for a legit profile about an interesting billionaire who funds cricket and runs the island of Antiqua like his personal fiefdom. Then they apparently later realized this guy is Mini-Madoff and turned it into a hit piece, which Sanford made incredibly easy by openly admitting to being a raging asshole.

That's some journalism efficiency!
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Smitros
04/21/09

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Does his denial have the ring of truthiness?
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skahammer
02/20/09

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But there you'd stand out, with your digital timepiece and your preference for anesthesia while undergoing surgery...guv'nah.
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lobstr
02/19/09

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the real funny about this guy is that he tried very badly -- and put a shitload of money behind promoting this shortened version of cricket called 20twenty or something, where the game goes from an abysmal 4 day saga to a shortened 3 or 4 hours.
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registered
02/19/09

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Is there some reason Antigua can't sell knighthoods just like the Brits do? Do the Brits have some trademark on the Sir title?
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
02/19/09

@registered:

Gawker should sell 'em. Or maybe we should sell them to the bloggers to up their media cred.

What is Stanford's real name? That family seems so obsessed with capitalizing on the name that it leads one to believe they might have changed it.
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GoFish
02/19/09

@registered: You want to be an Antiguan Knight? Send me $20K and I'll arrange it for you, for $50K we can get Bermuda. Haiti is $5.
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registered
02/20/09

@lil red: Prince Edward can bestow knighthoods?
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Smitros
02/19/09

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At this rate I may have to apologize to the guy who tried to give me three fives for a twenty.
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Uncle_Billy_Slumming
02/19/09

@Smitros: @Leon Freilich:

Gonn

afuck

ingget

hisasskicked
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Smitros
02/19/09

@Uncle_Billy_Slumming:

We can only hope.
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seyswho
02/19/09

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OK, we can't seem to put Madoff away and we can't even arrest this guy? Yet we can arrest 8 guys who smoked pot with Michael Phelps even though we know there is no actionable evidence and we can't hold them? Can someone explain this to me? Can some of the billions in this stimulus package go to fixing these insane discrepencies?
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skahammer
02/19/09

@seyswho: Not defending the slow-grinding gears of justice here, but financial crimes can be horridly complex. For all we know, Stanford just set up the whole scheme as a sting operation to catch the real fraudster.

What, too soon?
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CaptainFantastic
02/19/09

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I will not abide insulting Antigua! I went there for my honeymoon and the island and people were wonderful! Or maybe we went to St. Lucia. I was drunk.
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skahammer
02/19/09

@CaptainFantastic: It was actually Montauk. And you're not married.
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lobstr
02/19/09

@skahammer: really though it was Riker's island and the charge was lewd behavior while dressed like Bea Arthur.
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skahammer
02/20/09

@lobstr: Actually, I don't think that's a crime in New York. A fine at most.
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lobstr
02/21/09

@skahammer: hm, well, it should be. Mayor Bloomberg, are you listening?!?!
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