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Friday, April 16, 2021
Vol. 96, No. 16
GUIDE TO HOME & DESIGN
MAN SENTENCED FOR OD DEATHS
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Glickman to run for G.N. Board of Ed
Will vie for seat held by President Barbara Berkowitz since 1992 BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Michael Glickman, a philanthropic adviser, social entrepreneur and advocate for change, announced last week that he will run for a seat on the Great Neck Board of Education against longtime board member Barbara Berkowitz. Glickman has spent the past 16 years living in Great Neck with his wife, Sumi, a former finance executive, and three children. Two of his children attend North Middle School and one attends Saddle Rock Elementary School. Glickman is the founder and CEO of jMUSE, a venture in arts and culture philanthropy that joins institutions, experts and philanthropists to create innovative content throughout the United States and Europe. Glickman has also served as president and CEO of the state’s Holocaust museum and has served
as president of the board of directors for the Gold Coast Arts Center and its film festival. In letters to Blank Slate Media in the past few months, Glickman criticized how the school district provided resources to students and teachers to learn throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Glickman said he wanted to see the board have more conversations with the community regarding decisions. “When elected, I will continue to ask tough questions and work tirelessly to ensure that critical decisions are made in public view, with input from the community and clarity about where I stand on the issues,” Glickman said in an interview. Glickman specifically called out the district’s lack of new technology for students as a reason to get fresh faces on the board. Glickman lauded Berkowitz, the board Continued on Page 38
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Bernard Madoff, who was behind the largest Ponzi scheme in American history, has died in prison at age 82.
Bernard Madoff, famed scammer, dies at 82 BY R O S E W E L D ON Bernard Madoff, who organized the largest Ponzi scheme in American financial history and lost roughly $18 billion for investors, has died at 82. The former Roslyn resident’s death was reported to The Associated Press by an anonymous source on
Wednesday, and was later confirmed by a Bureau of Prisons representative, who said he died early that morning of natural causes. Madoff was 12 years into serving a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in Butler, North Carolina, where he has been held since he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of financial crimes in 2009, among
them fraud, money laundering, perjury and theft. He was also ordered to forfeit $170,799,000,000 as part of his sentence. Prior to the discovery of the fraud, the Queens-born Madoff, who attended Hofstra University, had been seen as a Wall Street prodigy of sorts. He founded his own Continued on Page 37
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