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Bernard Madoff

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    How Mark Borovitz Went From Con Man to Rabbi

    It seems like the setup for a corny joke: A rabbi and an ex-con walk into a room. Except here's the punch line: They're one and the same. Rabbi Mark Borovitz, 60, runs Beit T'Shuvah, a residential treatment center and Jewish congregation in an otherwise nondescript building in an equally average se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    Patrick Soon-Shiong, L.A.'s Richest Man, Joins Steven Cohen in Dodgers Bid

    With owner Frank McCourt's April 30 deadline to sell the team rapidly approaching, and with potential suitors--like alleged con man, and L.A. Weekly cover boy, Josh Macciello--dropping like flies, bidding for the Dodgers is getting serious. Hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen gained a new asset in ... More >>

  • News

    December 15, 2011

    Kinde Durkee Was Trusted by California's Top Democrats — Until Millions of Dollars Vanished

    With owner Frank McCourt's April 30 deadline to sell the team rapidly approaching, and with potential suitors--like alleged con man, and L.A. Weekly cover boy, Josh Macciello--dropping like flies, bidding for the Dodgers is getting serious. Hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen gained a new asset in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2011

    John Farahi: Iranian Bernie Madoff? Feds Say $20 Million of L.A. Persian Jews' Money Lost

    yunguyen666​A Bel Air Estates man whose investment fraud allegedly cost $20 million in losses was indicted by a federal grand jury this week. And since these alleged, mini-Madoffs are getting titles in the news based on ethnicity, we'll call this suspect a potential Iranian Bernie Madoff. Ind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    Jodie Foster's Ancient Father, or 'Bernie Madoff of Sherman Oaks,' to Be Jailed for Bad 1-Percent Behavior

    radaronline.comLucias Foster, left -- the most resilient scammer alive.​Today's proceedings in Van Nuys Superior Court could not have gotten any weirder: Lucius Foster, the 89-year-old father of actress Jodie, was declared "guilty" of concocting a home-building scheme that leeched thousands ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    Rob Delaney, L.A. Comedian, Wants to Sue Kim Kardashian Over 'Sham' Wedding; Kim, Lawyers Call BS

    Kiss, dammit. You promised!​Kim Kardashian has finally responded, albeit indirectly, to Los Angeles comedian Rob Delaney's threat to sue her in a viral column for Vice Magazine. His grounds? Delaney tells the Weekly that L.A.'s Armenian princess defrauded the public, and perhaps E! advertiser ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Kinde Durkee Called "The Bernie Madoff Of Campaign Finance Treasurers"

    Bernie Madoff and Kinde Durkee​Update: Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she was "wiped out." More below.Another day, another victim of the Kinde Durkee campaign finance scandal.Rep. Susan Davis, a San Diego Democrat and a Durkee client, told supporters over the weekend that more than $250,000 has been s ... More >>

  • News

    July 21, 2011

    Ezri Namvar Is the New Bernie Madoff and the Most Reviled Man in Town

    (And he speaks for the first time)

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Top 10 Music Managers Who Fucked Over Their Clients

    The family Knowles in happier times​In light of the surprising news over the reasons Beyonce fired her longtime manager (and longtime father for that matter) Mathew Knowles, we remembered a time when scummy managers were not only the norm, but expected. Here are the Top 10 Managers in Music Hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2011

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/31-6/3

    Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "What is a fake restaurant, exactly? Is it a place like Happy Family, serving kung pao chicken whose fowl is carefully crafted from gluten, or like the celebrity hangout Philippe, itself an imitatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    USDA Unveils New Food Chart: No More Pyramid Schemes

    ​ This morning the USDA unveiled their new food chart, finally replacing the food pyramid which first debuted -- and was trashed pretty much since -- in 1992. The new chart also comes with its own new website, ChooseMyPlate.gov. The food pyramid, you will doubtless remember, is that irritating ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2011

    Doug Stanhope: Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

    ​ Instead our usual insipid questions with the brilliant comic, Mr. Stanhope enlisted his fans to submit their own insipid questions. Do you think social media is a positive or detrimental thing? It's like a dildo on a power-drill. It depends on how you use it.

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2011

    Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

    Doug Stanhope

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Happy Anniversary: Martha Stewart Released From Jail 6 Years Ago Today

    Marthastewart.comMartha at home​Happy Anniversary Martha! Six years ago this morning, Martha Stewart was released from jail. As you may recall, Stewart spent five months at the minimum-security federal women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia after being convicted for lying to government inve ... More >>

  • News

    March 3, 2011

    Bankrupt Businessman James Agate Angles for a Slice of Billionaire Ted Forstmann's Riches

    Marthastewart.comMartha at home​Happy Anniversary Martha! Six years ago this morning, Martha Stewart was released from jail. As you may recall, Stewart spent five months at the minimum-security federal women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia after being convicted for lying to government inve ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 4, 2010

    Pundits of Punk

    Marthastewart.comMartha at home​Happy Anniversary Martha! Six years ago this morning, Martha Stewart was released from jail. As you may recall, Stewart spent five months at the minimum-security federal women's prison in Alderson, West Virginia after being convicted for lying to government inve ... More >>

  • News

    October 14, 2010

    Barry Minkow 2.0

    L.A.'s fraud king is back — and taking the media for another ride

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    Caught On Tape: Bell Salary Scandal Suspect Robert Rizzo Snoozes, Smirks In Court

    Robert Rizzo.​So you're the guy almost everyone thinks is the mastermind, the Bernie Madoff, the Dr. Evil of the Bell salary scandal, the guy who reportedly pulled $1.5 million in salary and other take-home from a struggling, working-class city, the former Bell city manager who allegedly made ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Randy Quaid Housing Crisis Comes To A Head After Squatting Alleged In Santa Barbara County

    ​Los Angeles has one of the most intractable homeless populations in the nation. Its Skid Row is the Skid Row. In Venice, people have taken to living in RVs. The real estate crisis has put people on the streets, plain and simple. But who knew times were so hard that even Hollywood actors were ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    Stage Raw: Voombodian Women from Outer Space!

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Happy Ending and WaterVOOMBODIAN WOMEN FROM OUTER SPACE! Staged reading of Barry Schwam's new play at Sierra Madre Playhouse, 87 W. Sierra Madre Blvd., in Sierra Madre. Sun., 7:30 p.m. $5 (626) 355-4318 AN EVENING WITH PAT BOONE, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

  • Stage

    August 26, 2010

    Theater Reviews: A Wither's Tale, All My Sons,Karma the Musical

    Also, Chess in Concert, On the Verge (Or the Geography of Yearning) and more

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2010

    Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    All My Sons

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2010

    Stage Raw: Much Ado

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleNEW REVIEW GO GRIFFITH PARK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING​Photo by Ivy AugustaDon John (Sean Pritchett) is such a bastard. Really. He's the bastard son of Don Pedro (Luis Galindo), pri ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    The Jewing of Westwood

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleNEW REVIEW GO GRIFFITH PARK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING​Photo by Ivy AugustaDon John (Sean Pritchett) is such a bastard. Really. He's the bastard son of Don Pedro (Luis Galindo), pri ... More >>

  • Stage

    October 29, 2009

    Weather Balloons and Unemployment

    More Crime and Punishment and a virtual Conquest of the South Pole

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 9, 2009

    Weak Economy Kills Love Ride 26

    Glendale Harley-Davidson/Buell​While you can't say that Bernie Madoff killed Love Ride 26, but the cancellation of the annual motorcycle ride benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is part and parcel of a collapsing economy whose victims include once-secure charities. The L.A. Daily News re ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Shopping

    Glendale Harley-Davidson/Buell​While you can't say that Bernie Madoff killed Love Ride 26, but the cancellation of the annual motorcycle ride benefiting the Muscular Dystrophy Association is part and parcel of a collapsing economy whose victims include once-secure charities. The L.A. Daily News re ... More >>

  • Eat+Drink

    August 27, 2009

    Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants

    Between a tweet and a truck

  • Stage

    July 23, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Altar Boyz, the Apple Tree, Chariot, Sprung: A Love Story

    Also, Stop Kiss, Billie and Bogie, God Box and more.

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Stage Raw: As You Like It

    THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2009

    Stage Raw: Pericles Redux

     THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK PERICLES REDUXPhoto courtesy of Not Man Apart ProductionsScholars have long discussed whether Shakespeare wrote  the entirety of Pericles, Prince of Tyre or collaborated with another writer. (Given the play's convoluted elements, most commentators ... More >>

  • Stage

    July 2, 2009

    Womb Service: Octomom the Musical

    Just can’t get enough

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Stonehill Tavern update: An Interview with Michael Mina about St. Regis, Burgers and the AIG Bailout Party

    With the St. Regis Monarch Beach hotel facing foreclosure, we thought we'd check in with chef-restauranteur Michael Mina, whose OC restaurant Stonehill Tavern is owned by the hotel.

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2009

    Stanley Chais, Local Madoff Helper, Faces Lawsuit

    Beverly Hills money manager Stanley Chais has to be looking over his shoulder this morning Wall Street JournalStanley Chaisto Bernard Madoff's prison sentence. Chais is at the Roybal Federal Building facing accusations by TV host Daphne Brogdon and others of acting as a local "feeder" to bogus inves ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    He-e-e-r-re's Eddie! Ed McMahon, the sidekick's sidekick, who for 30 years suffered and shone as Johnny Carson's foil, straight man and MC, has died of undisclosed causes at the age of 86. L.A. TimesSheriff Stops DNA Search Blaming budget woes, L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca has halted his department' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    Rescue Me Comedy Tour's Denis Leary Exercises His First Amendment Rights, And Then Some

    To kick off the fifth season of his FX drama Rescue Me, star Denis Leary brought a collection of fellow stand-ups (who just happened to be series regulars) together for the 11-city Rescue Me Comedy Tour... his first large-scale jaunt in 12 years. While the Saturday-night crowd seemed to be comprised ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    DWP Ordered to Refund Customers A Superior Court judge has ordered the DWP to pay back $30 million in fees it channeled into cash-strapped city agencies. L.A. TimesBenefits Take a Holiday Employees of papers belonging to the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (Daily News, Daily Breeze, et al) have been tol ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Stage Raw: Lie With Me on KPFK

    TIME IS RUNNING OUT, SEATING IS LIMITED:  PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; NOMINEES, RSVP AT (310) 574-7208, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO. DRESS FOR A 1958 LOUNGE ACT.At your fingertips: This week's THEATER FEATURE on Jon Stewart, Jim Cramer an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    Daily News' Database Central: A Procrastinator's Dream

    Every now and then the L.A. Daily News shows off its individual databases but is currently spotlighting all of them on one Web page. Culled from public records that we may be too lazy to track down ourselves, they provide the procrastinator with hours of dreamy fun that can be written off on company ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    AP: Madoff Fleeced Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick

    An Associated Press story, carried by Huffington Post and several other sources, reports that husband-wife actors Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick were taken to the cleaners big time by disgraced investment titan Bernard Madoff. The couple are the latest Hollywood figures known to have suffered heavy l ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 25, 2008

    Jordan Belfort: The Wounded Wolf of Wall Street

    Still howling

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2008

    Bernard Madoff & White-Wing Blogs

    The answer to the question, Is Bernard Madoff good for the Jews? has become painfully obvious during the past week as Jewish charities and individuals take stock of the $50 billion damage allegedly wrought by the investment titan. Their misfortune has kicked off an anti-Semitic Oktoberfest of gloati ... More >>

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