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Article: List Brings Home Impact of Madoff Scandal; Nearly 250 Washington Area Names in Court Filing Identifying Customers of Investment Firm
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- The Washington Post
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- February 6, 2009
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Nearly 250 Washington area names, including some of the region's
most prominent and wealthiest business people, are on a new list of
customers of the New York investment firm operated by Bernard L.
Madoff, who is accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
The big names locally include many involved in real estate
development, such as entities connected to the Gewirz, Abramson and
Smith families; Edward H. Kaplan; Allan R. Hurwitz; and Albert H.
Small. Other local names include Marion Rosenthal, whose family owns
major car dealerships in the area; Esthy Adler, a big arts donor;
Harvard scientist William A. Haseltine, founder of Human Genome
Sciences in Rockville; and Roger Sant of AES ...