WHo is the chicago mentor?
FROM:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07242009/gossip/pagesix/madoff_a_monster_from_birth_181040.htm
“Bernie showed his con-man colors as early as high school, when he held an English class enthralled with an oral book report — one that he made up on the spot out of whole cloth,” Jerry Oppenheimer, author of “Madoff With the Money,” out next month from Wiley, tells Page Six. “He also robbed Uncle Sam out of two years of Vietnam War-era Army Reserve active duty by developing a case of nerves.”
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* One of Madoff’s early Wall Street mentors, who supplied him with over-the-counter business, reputedly had close ties to the Chicago mob — “the genesis of Bernie’s career,” a source says.
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Oppenheimer claims the case is far from over, as “the Russian mob, the Israeli mob and people in high and powerful places” are being scrutinized by the feds. Madoff’s lawyer, Ira Sorkin, didn’t get back to us.
WOnder if this was MADE-OFFs mentor? or if he was connected to the 44 recent arrests in NJ? Hmmmm
Mr. Shaw was a longtime Democratic operative who cut his teeth working for Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago and later was a campaign aide to Gov. Jim Florio.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/nyregion/29jersey.html
Shaw started his political career in his early 20s in Chicago with the older Richard Daley, the political boss of the Windy City, said Freeholder William O’Dea, one of many friends he has in the Democratic Party.
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2009/07/jack_shaw_the_political_consul.html