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Two arrested in Ponzi scheme coverup

Nov. 14, 2009
Two former employees of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff used their computer skills to help cover up one of the largest investor frauds in history and were given hush money when they threatened to stop cooperating, federal prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors say Jerome O'Hara, of Malverne,...
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler