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Luxury Retailer Barneys Sets Closing Date For Its Stores Luxury Retailer Barneys Sets Closing Date For Its Stores
Luxury Retailer Barneys Sets Closing Date For Its Stores Barneys New York luxury goods stores and its corporate office will officially be closed later this month, costing hundreds of jobs after the company went bankrupt. The once iconic luxury retailer will shutter the doors of 15 stores across the country as of Sunday, Feb. 23, with 719 employees losing their jobs, according to the New York State Department of Labor. According to reports, any employee at the 97-year-old chain who has worked for the company at least two years received five-weeks severance, though workers did not receive accrued vacation time. The closures come after Barneys file…

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Trader From Manhasset Who Boasted Of Huge Investment Returns Charged In $20M Ponzi Scheme Trader From Manhasset Who Boasted Of Huge Investment Returns Charged In $20M Ponzi Scheme
Trader From Manhasset Who Boasted Of Huge Investment Returns Charged In $20M Ponzi Scheme A former Wall Street trader from Long Island allegedly ran a years-long Ponzi scheme to the tune of nearly $20 million. Manhasset resident Paul Rinfret, 70, has been charged with securities fraud and wire fraud charges in Manhattan federal court for the alleged scheme to defraud investors by selling limited partnership interests in an entity through which he purported to trade in futures contracts relating to the S&P 500 utilizing a bespoke algorithm he had developed. According to United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, Rinfret alleged that he toute…

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