Published: October 19, 2009
Tags: Bayfield County, beach house, Bernard Madoff, conservation, Kewaunee County, Kuwait, Menominee County, oil refinery, recreation, The Corcoran Group, U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance
Report: 16 percent of Wisconsin land is for conservation, recreation Madison (AP) — A new report says about 16 percent of the total land area in Wisconsin is publicly owned for conservation or recreational uses. According to the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance report, in 2006 about 5.7 million acres was being used for conservation or recreation. [...]
Published: September 9, 2009
Tags: appraisers, Beloit, Bernard Madoff, California Environment Quality Act, Clean Cities grant, Community Development Block Grant, Ed Roski, Fla., Frito-Lay, home foreclosures, Los Angeles County, Majestic Realty Co., New York’s Upper East Side, Palm Beach, state Department of Natural Resources, subprime lending, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Marshals Service, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle
Frito-Lay gets state money for expansion, Green Tier status Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle on Wednesday announced that the state will provide $2 million to Frito-Lay’s Beloit production facility to support a $28.5 million expansion and modernization project. Doyle also announced that Frito-Lay has been inducted into the state’s Green Tier Program, which was created in [...]
Published: September 1, 2009
Tags: beach house, Bernard Madoff, Long Island
Tom Hays AP Writer Montauk, NY — Those who see Bernard Madoff as an evil purveyor of excess might be disappointed by his beach house: It’s not that palatial. At 3,014 square feet, the home is cottage-size by superrich standards. Its faded furnishings look as old as Madoff’s epic fraud. There’s no garage. Not even [...]
Published: June 12, 2009
Tags: Bernard Madoff, Ponzi scheme, Social Security
Comments: 1
Raymond Keating Dolan Media Newswires Long Island, NY — When the Bernard Madoff scandal broke several months ago, we heard a good deal about Ponzi schemes. A Ponzi scheme is a scam in which older investors gain returns from new investors. As long as new investors keep coming in, everybody’s happy. But when new investors [...]