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View the full archive of Velvel on National Affairs- a liberal view The Briefs Of The Trustee And SIPC On The Net Equity Question Having read the opening briefs filed by the Trustee and by SIPC on the net equity question, I thought to set down a few of what I believe are my most important impressions. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the Tide" on www.podiobooks.com or in the podcast section of iTunes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | More On Net Equity. Plus Picower. In reading what little the Trustee has said in the past to justify his cash-in/cash-out position on net equity, a couple of thoughts struck me that, as far as I can recollect, have thus far not been made by opponents. I shall set them forth here. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Report Of SEC Inspector General Kotz In this essay, I shall not attempt to summarize Kotz's 457 page report. What shall be done instead is to discuss a particular perception the report induced in me, plus some points in the report that struck me forcibly and contributed to the perception but often seem not to have generally been picked up elsewhere or to have received only brief or minor mention elsewhere. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Government's Motion Of September 21, 2009 In The Criminal Case Against Madoff On September 21st, the Government made a motion for forfeiture and remission proceedings in the criminal case against Madoff. The motion plainly would result in serious injury to many victims of Madoff, and seemed to me highly objectionable. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the Tid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | January 31st, 2006, "Joseph Ellisâ Column On The "Place [of] 9/11 In American History." This is the audio blog of Dean Lawrence R Velvel's blog, Velvelonnationalaffairs.com from January 31st, 2006, entitled "Re: Joseph EllisÃïï Column On The "Place [of] 9/11 In American History." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted, part 1 any lawyer in private practice who tortured law or ignored fact to give support and cover to a clientâs gravely illegal conduct would be subject to disbarment, subject to criminal prosecution, and disqualified from being on any respectable law school faculty. How or why it should be different for lawyers who did such things to facilitate the gravest governmental misconduct, conduct which involved torture and sometimes murder, is something that escapes me. This is the audio version of D ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted, part 2 ... to not know that prisoners were being transferred for torture, Goldsmith would have had to be living under a rock during his time at DOD and must have completely failed to read pertinent OLC torture memos ...None of this seemed plausible and now, thanks to Goldsmithâs own book, we know he read and was horrified by torture memos after he was put in charge of OLC and long before he wrote the transfer memo. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jack Goldsmith Stands Convicted, part 3 There are.. some problems with Goldsmithâs little mea non culpa. What the CIA had been doing is torture pure and simple, and nothing that Levin said, or George Bush says, can change that fact. You can call the sky a floor if you want, but that wonât make it one, and you can call waterboarding a friendly gesture if you want, but that wonât make it something other than torture. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more informa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Greater And Lesser Potpourri Regarding Madoff, Starting With The IRS And Then Moving To Other Matters. Part II The SEC -- though it ironically is one of the governmental or quasigovernmental bodies most responsible for allowing Madoff to succeed -- has put together what one thinks the best description to date of the methods used by Madoff to fool victims, agencies, feeder funds, and huge organizations or immensely wealthy individuals who sought to do due diligence, and others. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on Th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Greater And Lesser Potpourri Regarding Madoff, Starting With The IRS And Then Moving To Other Matters. Part 1 If readers do not remember anything else written in this post or in its continuations, I beseech them to remember this: the IRS now appears to have surely admitted, in the letter of August 21st, that its review of Madoff was a paper-only-review -- was a review that was an open invitation for any liar, any Madoff, to receive IRS approval as a non-bank custodian by means of egregious fraudulent misstatements, and to thereby receive aid from the IRS in defrauding victims. This is the audio ver ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Letter to Diana Henriques I congratulate you on your excellent article on custodians on Saturday, July 25th. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the Tide" on www.podiobooks.com or in the podcast section of iTunes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Irving Picard's Motion To Dismiss The Complaint Filed By Helen Chaitman Let me begin with a matter that leaps off the page. Picard's brief does not so much as mention matters that should be the determinants of net equity: This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the Tide" on www.podiobooks.com or in the podcast section of iTunes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part II If readers remember not one other thing of what is written in this four- part posting, I urge them to remember -- and therefore am repeating yet again -- the possibility that Picard's definition of net equity may deprive them not just of $500,000, but also of any share in the estate. This possibility should be cleared up, one way or the other, as quickly as possible. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part III When David Sheehan attacked Helen Chaitman by a letter of June 12th, he accused her of making statements for which she could have no evidence. She responded, among other ways, by writing on June 16th that she would be able to prove various of her statements from SIPC's own files after discovery. My personal view is that she was right on. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part IV In this fourth segment, let me discuss an argument made by Harbeck and Picard in support of their cash in/cash out position. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the Tide" on www.podiobooks.com or in the podcast section of iTunes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Never Discussed Impact Of The Net Equity Question, The Devastating Impact Of Discovery On SIPC's Position Part I This post is being published in four parts. Let me start it with some comments that will surprise a lot of people. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the Tide" on www.podiobooks.com or in the podcast section of iTunes Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Vast Amount That We Don't know About The Madoff Matter We are currently in a place (so to speak) where a simply fantastic amount about the Madoff scam remains unknown; more remains unknown than I can ever remember being true at the time of the plea and sentencing of the lead culprit in any other major fraud case. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case Time Magazine posted an online article saying that SIPC "Trustees are paid well, receiving personally 3% of anything over $1 million they recover for victims. For example, if $2 billion is ultimately recovered in the Madoff case, Picard stands to make personally $60 million in fees, provided the New York federal judge overseeing the case, the Hon. Louis agrees to it." This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SIPC's Objections To The Posting Called "Irving Picard's Three Percent Commission In The Madoff Case" On Thursday, June 11th this author posted an article canvassing and presenting many of the criticisms that are raised. I don't want to bore you by repeating the canvas, but nonetheless shall recapitulate some of the criticisms in summary fashion because this is important to a full understanding regarding a demand SIPC made to me that the entire article of June 11th be taken down -- or at least an asserted mistake in it be corrected. This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Infestation of Government Values In Industry Now that the government is in effect taking over major industries -- is "freely interposing itself in the management culture of industry after industry," said Brooks-- "CEO's are forced to adopt the traits of politicians" This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com For more information on The Massachusetts School of Law, log on to www.mslaw.edu And to hear (and see!) the history of MSL, please visit "Against the Tide" on www.podiobooks ... 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