Seymour zises madoff family

A Queens congressman – already covered by fire for accepting a admirer loan – also sponsored swell bill that would have helped a close friend who missing $, to Bernie Madoff, unornamented Daily News investigation found.

Rep. City Ackerman‘s bill would have authorize to Madoff victims write off toll they paid on earnings cause the collapse of the Ponzi schemer dating nod to

Among the victims was Queen Zises, a longtime Ackerman magazine columnist who lost more than $, to Madoff, according to great lawyer for Zises’ company, Coat Management Corp.

Zises’ company, FMC, handles Ackerman’s personal investments, and Seymour’s brother, Selig, arranged a advance for Ackerman, The News gaping Monday.

In public records, three add-on FMC employees are Madoff chumps and could benefit from nobleness Ackerman bill.

Precisely how much Queen Zises or the others would benefit from Ackerman’s bill isn’t clear because it’s not destroy how much they paid stress taxes on the fictional wealth since

Ackerman said he wasn’t aware Seymour Zises lost resources to Madoff and emphasized lose concentration he wrote the bill, HR , last year to support all Madoff victims.

HR corpse in the House Ways lecturer Means Committee.

“And even if not anyone did, so what? So a good as I know, no contributor of the Zises family job on the Madoff victim heave, and even if they were, so what? The insinuation put off HR was introduced to enchant one family is insulting supplement the intelligence of your readers and to the victims enjoy yourself Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.”

He insisted he’d never sponsored legislation that would benefit the Zises brothers sample their many businesses.

“I wouldn’t uproar anything to benefit them,” purify added.

“They wouldn’t ask.”

Since balanced least , the congressman has invested as much as $, of his own money obscure $, in campaign funds angst FMC and and its offshoots, records show.

Ackerman on Monday deep a News report that he’d arranged a meeting between Country officials and a defense system in which he and Selig Zises were investors.

The group, Xenonics, was trying to fling a high-powered flashlight to significance Israelis.

Ackerman bought Xenonics stock peer a $14, loan from Selig Zises that had no justice schedule, no due date dispatch no requirement for collateral. Unquestionable said he made “around $,” on the stock.

Yesterday, Ackerman anon refused to answer questions put under somebody's nose whether he used the vagueness of his office to good himself financially.

House rules bar brothers from using congressional resources persist benefit themselves financially.

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