Bernie madoff. Mf global and pfg. Three large financial scandals, which garnered a lot of national attention. Russ wasendorfs pfg fraud is the largest financial fraud in iowa history. 215Million Dollars, stoon from thousands of customers of cedar fallsbased peregrine financial grouppfg. If not for the move to Electronic Bank account balance verification, Russ Wasendorf, senior, might still be enjoying, what turned out to be his imaginary empire. He loved having a skybox for bears games and a have everything. Ceo of pfgbest. The man said to have the golden touch. This was not a very everything he invested in was a loser. Founder of his own on line futures trading company. Retail futures is a very hard business. Not for the man who would become known assadoff of the midwest. Russ was really taking as much money as he needed to support his lifestyle. Undetected for nearly 20years. On the day the merry go round stopped. He was supposed to have aboutt 220million in the Customer Account and
At the seam time a new report shows iowans are buying hundreds of millions of addictive pharmaceuticals. The Iowa Prescription Monitoring Program says last year alone, iowans bought 300 million pills. A 5th of those pills were vicadin and a powerful common narcotic pain kill canner he. Since it was created killer. Since it was created fewer are hopping from doctor to doctor until they get prescriptions. The program is work on expanding the data base by sharing information with more states to better track patients. Donald trump may have received the endorsement of new Jersey Governor Chris Christie last week. But Iowa Governor Terry Branstad is not ready to support any president ial candidate. At his Weekly Press Conference this morning, governor branstad said regardless of whether people agree with christies endorsement or not he respects it as a strategic timely move that helped move the spotlight off marco rubios good debate trump. I think it was brilliant move and it obviously chang
The cbs 2 news road warrior. Today voters in ababt a dozen states will head to primaries or caucuses around the country. Country. And with hundreds of delegates up for grabs on each side of the race it could be Judgement Day for many candidates. Candidates. The most recent polls put Businessman Donald Trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton on the verge of capturing their parties nomination if they deliver tonight. The latest cn n National Poll gives clinton nearly a 20percentage point lead and trump is sitting 30 rival. Now lets take a look at the current delegate count for the top three candidates in the republican race. Trump leads the pack with 82 and has nearly 5 times the amount of delegates as his two closest rivals. Texas senator ed cruz has high hopes about winning syas it could be a turning point in the race. Super tuesday i believe is the most important day of the entire primary. It is an opportunity for texasasnd the ates all across the country to make a decisio
22 year old Rashon Montgomery was last seen friday night when he left work at the isle casino in waterloo. He has diminished mental capacity and autism. Kwwls lauren moss speaking with his family today she joins us now with the latest in downtown waterloo. Ron, the family told me they cant eat they cant sleep. They just want to know where rashon is. He has autism. So they are worried he may have put himself in a so tonight they are asking for montgomeryhas worked at the isleecasino for three years. He gets picked up after comeeome since. Its something that has his closeknit family worried care about eating. I cant eat because i dont know if my child is eating or if hes okay. It just is not a good feeling at all. I dont wish this on anybody. They say this iit like hes a big teddybear. Hes a happy person. Hes funny. He will sit up and make jokes with you. And emotions are running high inside the montgomerys home. They say rashon may be in trouble without even understanddg it. He has auti
We begin tonight with the knowledge that can keep everyone safe on halloween. In order to maintain a safe environment, rules are in place for everyonce including registered sex offenders. Offenders. Cbs 2 News Reporter dora miller is live in cedar rapids with the expectations, dora . Karen, offenders do have to stay at their home during peak trickortreating hours or stay at a place approved by their agent. But there are other rules in place to keep the community and offenders safaf safefe little goblins, witches and fairies will be taking over neighborhood streets tomorrow night. And while fun is mandatory, safety is too. Too. When i was a kid, we used to walk around all the time, grab a pillow sack and ran door to door as much as we could. Its the same idea for kids today, but while parents are keeping an eye on their kids, the court system is keeping an eye on another group. Group. We always want to ensure that everything we do here is to create no more victims for the state of iowa,