Larry Reynolds

While Bernie Madoff is sitting pretty in his New York jail cell, a new alleged Ponzi scheme is being revealed halfway across the nation in Minnesota. Currently making headlines is Minnetonka businessman Tom Petters, who has pleaded not guilty to swindling $3.5 billion from investors across the globe.

Everybody knows at least one person who claims to know at least one person who was in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. They truly believe all these stories, and since social regulations dictate that we’re not allow to call bullshit on them, most of us sit idly while people say things like, “He was never late to work even one day in the 35 years that he worked there, but for some reason he went in late that morning.