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There are many ways of earning the spotlight, and Sheryl Weinstein went an unenviable route: she's famous for sleeping with a guy only slightly more popular than Stalin. Weinstein, the former CFO of the Jewish women's volunteer organization Hadassah, has written a new book, out Aug. 25, about her yearlong extramarital affair with swindler Bernie Madoff, titled Madoff's Other Secret: Love, Money, Bernie, and Me. Voyeurs won't be left wanting for dirt; the salacious tell-all chronicles their trysts in graphic, almost vengeful detail. Ironically, the 60-year-old Weinstein, who calls Madoff a "beast...
...briefly outline how you met and how your relationship developed? We met through business. I was chief financial officer for Hadassah, and we had a donor from France whose contingency of the gift he was giving, $7 million, was that Bernie had to be the person who handled the investment. That's how we met and how Bernie was introduced to Hadassah...
Speaking of keeping your money and your organization's money with him, were you worried that revealing your personal entanglement would subject you to a lawsuit or otherwise jeopardize your professional integrity? No. Hadassah had a private advisory board, and it was a group of four or five men who were top professionals in their field. They always reviewed the investments. I sat on the board without a vote, and there was never a time when I had the overall say on any type of investment decision without them. In addition, Hadassah remained with Bernie 11 years after I left...
According to one of the Prime Minister's aides, the medical personnel discussed whether to fly him to Jerusalem by helicopter but decided it would be too rough a ride, instead opting to transport him by ambulance to Hadassah hospital. He was still conscious when his convey arrived in Jerusalem 48 min. later, but his condition soon deteriorated. An MRI scan revealed a serious brain hemorrhage. Sharon underwent a two-stage operation that lasted more than eight hours. After another surgery on Friday morning, Sharon was in a medically induced coma and attached to a respirator. "Sharon won't come...
...Five years after the fateful night of his election, my prime minister, lying unconscious in Hadassah Hospital, is lingering between life and death. Even if he recovers, it seems as if his days in politics are over. Doctors say that he probably suffered severe brain damage. And the only thing that I can think about is how, once again, we came so close to peace...