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            <title><![CDATA[Sex With Madoff]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  On the day Madoff mistress Sheryl Weinstein's tell-all is released, Madoff victim Burt Ross confesses to a non-affair with Ruthie-and spares a thought for poor Mr. Weinstein, who joins the publicly humiliated spouses' club.
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            <title><![CDATA[The Lockerbie Bomber Killed My Classmate]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When U.K. authorities released the Lockerbie bomber last week for so-called mercy, they showed none to the family of my classmate, David J. Gould, who was one of the 270 people killed 21 years ago.
David J. Gould, my Harvard classmate, never made it...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Boss Teddy]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Burt Ross, the former mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, remembers the summer he spent as Ted Kennedy's first legislative intern-and the senator who only grew in stature from there.
"Hold the line for Senator Kennedy," the operator said. Prone to being...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Jersey Is Corrupt Again!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the FBI arrests numerous New Jersey politicians (and rabbis!) in a corruption probe, former Fort Lee Mayor Burt Ross reflects on how his state is back to being No. 1.
Just as those of us living in Tony Soprano country feared we were falling behind...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Luxury Vacation, Via Madoff]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Burt Ross, the former mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey, was forced to cancel a resort vacation after he lost $5 million to Madoff-but now he's headed off to a luxury destination, thanks to the Ponzi schemer.
My wife and I are about to leave for a luxury...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What I Told Madoff Today]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ On the day of Bernard Madoff's sentencing, The Daily Beast's Burt Ross, who lost $5 million, offers a statement to the court explaining why the Ponzi schemer should never be let out of prison. 
Plus: Read our complete coverage of the Madoff scandal....]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Did Bernie Choose to Go to Prison?]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ Ever since Bernie Madoff stole $5 million from me, I've been trying to figure him out. The day before I give a statement at his sentencing, I'm trying to unravel one of his bigger enigmas: Why did he go to jail earlier than he had to? 
Despite all...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My $500,000 Madoff Check]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff stole $5 million from The Daily Beast's Burt Ross, who just received a half-million-dollar check back from the bankruptcy. Never has a 90 percent loss felt so good.
Today is my lucky day. I just opened the mail and there it was-a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stop Hating on Madoff Victims]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Yes, I got a tax break for the $5 million I lost with crook extraordinaire Bernie Madoff. It amounted to all of 5 cents on the dollar. Why do people have a problem with that?
On Tax Day, fellow Daily Beast contributor and Clinton budget adviser Matt...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[What I'd Like to Tell Bernie in Court]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The former mayor of Fort Lee, N.J., wanted to look Madoff in the eye today and make a victim's statement, but the judge ruled that such statements must wait until sentencing.
If it pleases the court, my name is Burt Ross and my wife, Joan, and I lost...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How the Government Screwed Madoff Victims Again]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For years, hundreds of Madoff clients paid taxes on income they thought they had earned. Now that Madoff's alleged scam has unraveled, investors like The Daily Beast's  Burt Ross are fighting the government to get their money back.
Those of us fleeced...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Made the List!]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The bankruptcy court late yesterday released the full list of Madoff victims, from Steven Spielberg to Kevin Bacon. Former New Jersey Mayor Burt Ross-who lost $5 million-on the upside of making the list.
I'm exhausted. For hours I've been listening to...]]></description>
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