Sales Price of Madoff’s Homes Dropping

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Let’s just hope Bernie Madoff’s ego isn’t bruised knowing that people aren’t immediately snapping up his swanky properties in Manhattan and Palm Beach, Fla. Reuters news service reports that the government has had to lower the asking price, the result of a a soft market. “Madoff’s 4,000-square-foot duplex Manhattan penthouse, ‘perched…

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Bernie Kerik a Free Man Again

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Controversial ex-New York police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is a free man again — at least for now. A federal judge in White Plains, N.Y., who tossed him in jail Oct. 20 for violating his pre-trial conditions,  released him Tuesday so he could go home to his New Jersey mansion pending his…

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