A Con Is A Con: Donald Trump Is Bernie Madoff All Over Again

Nomi Prins, TomDispatch.com, Salon: Politics
Fri, 09/30/2016 - 4:00pm

Bernie Madoff (U.S. Dept. of Justice/Wikimedia) This piece originally appeared on TomDispatch. Imagine for a moment that it’s January 2009. Bernie Madoff, America’s poster-child fraudster, has yet to be caught. The 2007-2008 financial crisis never happened. The markets didn’t tank to reveal the emptiness beneath his schemes. We still don’t know what’s lurking in his tax returns because he’s never released them, but we know that he’s a billionaire, at least on paper.

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