Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Hyatt could proceed with his privacy suit in Nevada. (The outcome could impact the nosiness of tax auditors nationwide.) Meanwhile his tax case in California is on hold.

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Asked about how his palm print had come to be found in the bank, he said he had gone to take a look at the damage after the mob had dispersed out of a "mixture of stupidity and nosiness".

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He was operating a blind pool, in which investors had no real idea what they owned or how it was performing, relying on Mr. Madoff who reported metronomic returns, brooked no nosiness into his methods, and seemed always willing to pay off investors who wanted to withdraw their money.

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