With the help of his father-in-law, Madoff created an impressive client list including stars such as Steven Spielberg, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick. The company grew a reputation for its annual returns of 10 percent or more and, by the 1980s, his firm was one of the largest firms trading on the New York Stock Exchange. He was also the Chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange. Madoff was a prolific philanthropist giving campaign contributions mostly to the Democratic Party. Madoff employeed several members of his family in the business.
Sam, Chris and Caleb are now pretty rich and buying 3 piece suits and luxury apartments. The Laundering is going well and things are finally looking up until Chris gets bad news.Episode 2: Dirty Money: Caleb decides to invest in meth and other drugs to obtain more money even though he's been clean for three years. He employs the best Cooks, Dealers and Administrators possible just to be safe.Episode 3: Heist: Jack takes a turn for the worst as Caleb looks through his job plans again and is pretty sure He, Sam and Chris Can pull it off. Sam is still clueless about what to do with her share of the money.Episode
His case records are two inches thick filled with numerous diagnoses, including schizoid personality, paranoid schizophrenia, and manic-depressive psychosis ( also known as dipolar mood disorder now). Steven V’s father worked long hours and traveled quite often. Mr. V would always criticize his son and saw him as timid, weak, and withdrawn. Mr. V would show no sympathy towards Steven if he had lost a fight. In other words, he was disappointed in his son.
Charles Foster Kane, publisher of the New York inquirer and numerous other papers, and one of the richest men in the world, influenced America’s thinking for half a century. However, Kane is flawed, self-serving, destructive opportunist, a classic tragic figure doomed to fall. Because he had lots of money, Kane believed he could buy anything including the friendship and love. Message is simple: success, power, riches cannot replace love and tranquility. Many people walked out on Kane’s life: first wife Emily, the best friend Leland, and second wife Susan.
One reason that Madoff was so successful was that he was a highly respected, well-established and esteemed financial expert. His reputation was strengthened by the fact that he helped found the NASDAQ stock exchange and served a term as its chair. What's more, at the same time he was running his scheme, he was also running a legitimate business, which didn’t occur overnight. This was a scary thing to imagine and he had many bamboozled. You would think that over duration of time such as this, one would pick up with Bernie Madoff.
Many people know of Bernie Madoff as the man that perpetrated by far the largest scam in the history of the United States, if not the world. His reputation of a successful investor, chairman of NASDAQ, and financial genius took a turn for the worst when his so called split-strike conversion strategy turned out to be nothing but a momentous Ponzi scheme affecting thousands of investors from around the globe. A Ponzi scheme is “a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to investors out of the money paid by subsequent investors rather than from legitimate profits (Fitzpatrick, 2010).” The Ponzi scheme was named after Carlo (Charles) Ponzi who fled Italy for America at the age of 21. In 1919 Ponzi developed a scheme to get investors
Blacks Law 8 Eric Beeler 278.5-end Page 278: Rene Leonard was called, the “mystery witness.” Schlessinger claimed that 80 percent of his banking business was with Republic. Page 279: More of Rene Leonard's testimony about his business and relations with Republic bank. He seems to be a always right, know-it-all kinda guy. Page 280: Witnesses like him, who skillfully weave a seamless tale out of half-truths present a formidable challenge to the defense. Page 281: He forgot about the 80,000 dollars he had received in cash, and played it off sarcastically to the jury.
There have been numerous reports of the client making statements about suicidal ideations and other statements regarding self harm. The clients’ grandmother stated that these behaviors are also presented at times in the home and that he frequently has tantrums when he is asked to comply with certain rules. She also stated that the client has difficulty being able to interact appropriately with his siblings and other family members. Identified Challenges/ Barriers to care, treatment services, or reaching goals: Jason continues to blame others for his misbehaviors when confronted with his actions. At times, the client will kick walls, or bang his head on the wall or door frame when frustrated.
Armstrong ,a Caucasian middle aged man, was a celebrity who starred on the hit reality show Real House Wives of Beverly Hills. Unlike Ashley, he was not so typical. Armstrong was a wealthy man who was in financial turmoil and in a volatile marriage all of which was magnified by the camera and the thousands of people they invited into their home each week. The weeks preceding Russell’s suicide were filled with much stress, alcohol, loss of finances, divorce, depression, anxiety, and lawsuits. From this list alone, one can’t help but think that suicide was the easy way out for this man.
Binging is the user trying to make the high last. This can be 3 to 5 days of rushes until they no longer can experience the rush. Then begins a dangerous spiral of tweaking, of sleep deprivation and itching due to “crank bugs”. The user is often in a completely psychotic state, completely disconnected from reality. This is the state in which they can be a threat to themselves or others.