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Easter Hats for Madoff Victims

By Liz Borod Wright ⋅ April 12, 2009 ⋅ One comment

madoff-easter-hat-150Today at the NYC Easter Parade, there were the usual wacky hats adorned with flowers, Peeps and other holiday-related accoutrements.

One family got more creative – and timely. The parents, their teenage daughter and dog wore Lost-Our-Nest-Egg hats. But these weren’t ordinary victims of the downturn: The mother wasn’t shy about telling everyone they had lost their savings to none other than Bernie Madoff…

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