Word: methods
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...more recent years, I used yet another method to conceal my fraud. I wired money between the United States and the United Kingdom to make it appear as though there were actual securities transactions executed on behalf of my investment advisory clients. Specifically, I had money transferred from the U.S. bank account of my investment advisory business to the London bank account of Madoff Securities International Ltd., a United Kingdom corporation that was an affiliate of my business in New York. Madoff Securities International Ltd. was principally engaged in proprietary trading and was a legitimate, honestly run and operated business...
Although there is a mountain of evidence and plenty of victims in this case, a guilty plea would save a lot of time and money for the government, according to Kirshner. But still, she said, assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Litt will want to "know the method of the crime, how it went undetected, where the money went, where it's hidden, if any, and who's involved...
...Steven Hyman, provost of Harvard, a former psychiatry professor at its medical school and a former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, agitated at the meeting for a new DSM framework that would stop trying to divide mental problems into discrete all-or-nothing categories. That method is appropriate for some medical problems - you either have leukemia or you don't - but depression, for instance, doesn't work like that. (Read "Why Do the Mentally Ill Die Younger...
...state or municipality programs, while other funds will flow directly to individuals, families, and businesses in the form of tax cuts and credits. But Wolf—who said that she is anxious about funding for essential services like education and healthcare—said that she viewed this method of funding as “fragmented.” “It’s like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, but we don’t know what the end looks like,” Wolf said. In December, Patrick established 10 task forces to prepare Massachusetts...
...group of researchers at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital have published findings on a new, more accurate method to predict stroke risk through a statistical model that screens for thousands of potentially stroke-causing genes. The model—called a Bayesian network—differs from existing methods that examine only the effect of a single factor, instead allowing researchers to study the interaction of multiple genes. The study, released last month, found the formula could predict a person’s risk for the most common stroke in the U.S. with 86 percent accuracy—which...