Could be pols invested through "feeder funds"----hedge funds that put investors money WITH Madoff. Names could be there rather than on the Madoff official list.
.......a study of who got ripped off and who they voted for would be quite telling....
Madoff financed many politicians. What we know so far:
The Center for Responsive Politics has looked into the matter of the Madoff family’s political contributions between June 1993 and October 2008.
Federal Election Commission records show that members of the Madoff family made some 250 political contributions to 45 candidates and committees totaling $391,350.
The largest individual recipients were Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), $34,000; Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), $31,000; Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), $25,000; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, $23,500; Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-MO), $12,000; Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), $6,600; and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), $4,500. The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, which Schumer currently chairs, received $104,050.
Among Republicans, the lion’s share of Madoff family contributions went, oddly enough, to Rep. Jack Fields (R-TX), $13,000. Sen. John McCain received $2,000.
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Politicians are held to a HIGHER legal standard than ordinary folk. If they are withholding info from authorities, they are guilty of obstructing and delaying justice.
If pols took profits from illegal financial dealings, under the legal principle of "fraudulent conveyance," they have to give the money back......individuals are not allowed to profit from a fraud.
I'm just amazed that a bunch of pols weren't taken to the cleaners.
FWIW, I think the names missing from that least are even more interesting than the names that are on it.
Dang. There are so many Jews on the list, it reads like the credits to a Spielberg movie.