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Friday, December 18, 2020
Vol. 8, No. 51
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Vaccine arrives; deaths rise BY R O S E WELDON AND ROBERT PELAEZ New York state’s largest health system, Northwell Health, made history on Monday by vaccinating the first person in the United States against COVID-19. In a Zoom conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Dr. Michelle Chester, director of employee health care, injected Pfizer Inc.’s vaccine into Sandra Lindsay of Port Washington, an intensive care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. Northwell President and CEO Michael Dowling was also present. “Today is V-Day in our fight against COVID-19,” Dowling told the governor. “This truly is a historic day for science and humanity, one in which we here in New York and across the United States have been waiting for quite some time.” The system said Lindsay’s PHOTO BY SCOTT HEINS, COURTESY OF THE OFFICE OF GOV. ANDREW CUOMO participation kick-started a longanticipated vaccination deploySandra Lindsay, a registered nurse and director of critical care at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park,
receives the COVID-19 vaccine during a live conference with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
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$488M distributed to Madoff victims BY R O S E W E L D ON
financial crimes, the Department of Justice announced last Thursday. Madoff, 82, who organized Over $488 million will be distributed to 37,000 victims of former the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. Roslyn resident Bernard Madoff ’s financial history and lost $18 bil-
lion for investors in his Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities firm, has been held in a federal prison in Butler, North Carolina, since he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of financial crimes in 2009. The list of his wrongdoing included fraud, money laundering, perjury and theft. He was sentenced to 150 years in prison and ordered to forfeit
$170,799,000,000. Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss in Manhattan said in a statement that the payments represent the sixth in a series of distributions that will give victims compensation for more than 80 percent of their losses. Assistant Attorney General Brian C. Rabbitt added that the department had now returned nearly
$3.2 billion to Madoff ’s victims, recovering more than 80 percent of the losses. “This exceptional work – and there is more to come – has been made possible by the department’s steadfast commitment to the pursuit of the proceeds of fraud through civil forfeiture,” Rabbitt said. Continued on Page 52
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