FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) — Federal prosecutors accused a high-profile South Florida attorney of concocting a Ponzi scheme that lured millions of dollars from investors with promises of big payoffs from legal settlements that never existed, according to court documents filed today. ...more

November 9, 2009

NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the items set to go on the auction block this week at a midtown Manhattan hotel, there's one that would take some mettle to wear in public: A satin New York Mets baseball jacket emblazoned with the name "Madoff." ...more

November 9, 2009

Tampa Bay Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer today called a radio station's report that his family lost millions in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme "irresponsible" and "slanderous." ...more

October 29, 2009

The victims were as old as 91 and their losses could add up to nearly $20 million. ...more

October 26, 2009

Tampa data center sale announced One of Tampa's major data center companies will be acquired in a transaction valued at $689 million. Foster City, Calif.-based Equinix Inc. announced a deal to acquire Switch & Data Facilities Co. of Tampa in a cash and stock deal. ...more

October 22, 2009

Health care reform without a public option is a scam greater then the Ponzi scheme of Maddof. ...more

October 8, 2009

I am against red light cameras because they contribute to accidents and absurd fines, which is taxation by our lazy government. Next year the government will further their lack of discretion by proposing that red light violators be tracked by satellite to their home for culpability confirmation, ticket-point issuance and search of your home. Stand up for your rights and red-light our unreasonable government. Most everyone I speak to convey their concerns about our economy and the future. Yet statistics indicate that some 90 percent of our Congress was re-elected. It would appear that change is unlikely when you keep the same failed leadership in office. It is as simple as voting all incumbents out of office, yet the people stand in an oblivious state while the old cronies run our country into the ground. ...more

April 19, 2009

A federal bankruptcy judge signed off Tuesday on a plan to raise tens of thousands of dollars for victims of the Bernard Madoff fraud by auctioning off pricey New York Mets season tickets owned by the disgraced financier's investment firm. ...more

April 15, 2009

"The better the villain," Alfred Hitchcock said, "the better the movie." And in the epic production that is the United States of America, we have followed that advice since the earliest settlers landed. For every hero the American story factory produces, a vivid new villain comes off the assembly line in short order. ...more

April 2, 2009

The prime Citi Field seats of Bernard Madoff's company could soon be available. ...more

March 29, 2009