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  • Florida Democratic congressman (Grayson) loses $18 million in (Ponzi) scheme

    12/09/2013 7:20:53 PM PST · by Zakeet · 48 replies
    Fox News ^ | December 9, 2013
    Florida Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson lost $18 million in a scheme by a Virginia man that involved over a 100 victims, the congressman’s office confirmed Monday. [Snip] The scheme worked like this: clients would turn over their stocks to Chapman as collateral for a loan, and Chapman would let customers borrow about 90 percent of the stocks' value. If the stocks did badly, borrowers could walk away and keep the money they were loaned. But if the borrowers' stocks did well, they would repay the loan with interest, and Chapman was supposed to return the stocks to the investor at...
  • B-A—N—A—N—A— S To the tune of anger (gwen Stefani)

    09/03/2005 12:45:22 PM PDT · by buckeyesrule · 11 replies · 3,004+ views
    National Review Online ^ | August 30, 2005 | Peter Wood
    B — A — N — A — N — A — S To the tune of anger. By Peter Wood Singer Gwen Stefani’s refrain, “I ain’t no hollaback girl,” has provided part of the soundtrack for the summer of ’05. It is not exactly “I dream of Jeannie with the light brown hair/Borne like a vapor on the summer air,” but the song is memorable in a vaporous sort of way. An anxious-sounding six-beat phrase carried by the horns repeats as Stefani raps out a disjointed challenge to a guy who has been talking trash about her: So that’s...