The 70-year-old Mr. Madoff wasn't some dot-com upstart but a pillar of the community and philanthropist.
In its other pro-business ruling this week, the court decided on Monday that Credit Suisse (nyse: CS - news - people ) and other investment banks weren't guilty of setting stock prices during the dot-com bubble, as some investors had alleged.
"Clearly when you back out the barter transactions, as well as the three-year dot-com ad contracts that are now expiring, advertising wasn't a viable business model, " says Henry Asher, president of Northstar Group, a New York-based investment manager that holds the parent company's shares.
Zamani couldn't stay away, even as so many dot-coms turned to dust.
In its other pro-business ruling this week, the court decided on Monday that Credit Suisse and other investment banks weren't guilty of setting stock prices during the dot-com bubble, as some investors had alleged.
Kozmo is a cool idea, and may have even looked like a good company back when everyone was riding the dot-com high, but it just doesn't hold up in the real world.
"What we do is a reasonable measure to know the identity of each customer, " says John Ricci, general counsel for Green Dot, which apparently didn't get wise to Wamsley-Saxon (someone tipped off the cops) but cooperated with the investigation.
Then-Chairman Greenspan's "irrational exuberance" speech was in December 1996, with the bulk of the dot-com bubble to follow, but the Fed didn't even hike reserve requirements to send a warning shot across Wall Street's bow.
This senior official said that the Bush administration wanted to "cross t's and dot i's" before it authenticates or dismisses the latest e-mail.
Undocumented immigrant is not only not pejorative, it implies a moral judgement an implicit tut-tut for misplacing some papers of failing to dot ever i and cross every t.
Beyond that, it doesn't appear to pack any video functionality and features a much smaller 2.5-inch 230k-dot display.
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"It was the most dot-com-bubble name I could think of, and I didn't want people to know what we were going to do, " he says.
It also means that some of the many sick dot-coms still have a chance of survival--though it wouldn't hurt to have a warehouse full of Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) PlayStation 2s.
The big economic and emotional crashes I predicted would arise from the punctured boom just haven't appeared VCs are sitting on the biggest funds they've ever had--and for every dot-com they let die by withholding money, two new firms get investments.
But DOT claims it has already used this flexibility and still can't avoid cuts to air-traffic control.
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