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Friday, April 16, 2021
Vol. 9, No. 16
GUIDE TO HOME & DESIGN
JIM AMEN TO RETIRE
SCHUMER PUSHES FOR MENTAL HEALTH FUNDS
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Rally against violence
SUCH SWEET SORROW
Students gather in Great Neck BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Around three dozen elementary and high school students from across the North Shore gathered at Grace Avenue Park in Great Neck on Sunday to condemn acts of violence and intolerance against Asian-Americans. The rally was spearheaded by Great Neck North High School sophomore Angelica Wu along with students from the Great Neck, Manhasset, Roslyn, Sewanhaka and Herricks school districts. Wu said her main goal was to spur change in the North Hempstead community in light of the number of recent discriminatory acts toward Asian-Americans throughout the nation. Despite cultural teachings of “sweeping things under the rug,” Wu said, people can no longer continue to turn a blind eye to what is happening. “When I watch the videos of our elderly being pushed to the ground, beaten, treated like nothing, I was furious and disContinued on Page 38
PHOTO COURTESY OF MANHASSET PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Students in Manhasset High School’s Repertory Company classes presented a performance at the second annual North Shore Student Shakespeare Festival last month. Under the direction of theater instructor Robb Fessler, students performed Act 5, Scene 3 of “Romeo and Juliet.”
Bernie Madoff dies in prison Mind behind largest Ponzi scheme in American history was 82 BY R O S E W E L D ON
death was reported to The Associated Press by an anonymous Bernard Madoff, who orga- source on Wednesday, and was nized the largest Ponzi scheme later confirmed by a Bureau of in American financial history Prisons representative, who said and lost roughly $18 billion for he died early that morning of natural causes. investors, has died at 82. Madoff was 12 years into The former Roslyn resident’s serving a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in Butler, North Carolina, where he has been held since he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of financial crimes in 2009,
among them fraud, money laundering, perjury and theft. He was also ordered to forfeit $170,799,000,000 as part of his sentence. Prior to the discovery of the fraud, the Queens-born Madoff, who attended Hofstra University, had been seen as a Wall Street prodigy of sorts. He founded his own firm at 22 and became chairman of Nasdaq in 1990, and also was credited with helping the trading world transition
to from analog to electronic. The fraud scheme allegedly began in the early 1970s, and defrauded as many as 37,000 investors in 136 countries over four decades by the time Madoff was turned in by his two sons in late 2008, after redemption requests flooded in during the financial crisis. Those affected included the Wilpon family, then owner of the New York Mets; the pension Continued on Page 37
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