comparisons to this being a ponzi scheme. it really isn t. i mean, a ponz ii scheme get th you take, you know, the first investors in a ponzi scheme and you take the new investors and you pay off the original investors and that keep raising money for a long period of time.ime. this was outright fraud. this was outright theft. there s no reason why authorities shouldn t have caught on to what he was doing earlier. i also said duringng the the commercial break, if we re g going to go there, the fdny this week, that news conference, we covered it during america reports with laberge asking these wereip these prosecutors stood up there. somehow they discovered this up this case was handed to them on a platter. discovewith a bow. they did not discover this. and you have to ask yourself, in the wake of all thesehese donations to democrats, yes, there were some republican s, but mostly to democrats. t you have to look at this and you have to ask yourself, h why is this a market that continue
money. now the fraudsters family is reportedly callinthg the rat infested bahamas prison whereahs he s being held and asking p ife he could get some vegan meals.ge it s unclear whether or not that request has been granted. but while all the talk is about sam, what s going on with his former flame, caroline ellison, winfried hasformer blamed her fr the collapse of the fdx crypto exchange. she hasn bankmaied blamedt b. so rumors are swirling that she flipped on her formero ru boyfriend. and how rich is this?mors members of congres ares who arhr supposedie to get to the bottom of the fraud? well, they took sam s dirty money. bateman freed and his cronies pumped in nearly ninety five thousand dollars in donations to at least eleven lawmakerss who serve on the committee investigating last month s collapse of the fdic s crypto exchange. i hope you don t mind me sayingg the standard during the commercial break. you said, hey, this isn tsanr a madoff, this isn t a ponzi scheme. w
christine is busy preparing a thanksgiving feast for thursday. it s a full week. and ali is preparing to eat one. that s right. so they re off today. i m carol costello along with alina cho. welcome to american morning. first, new details in a plot to plant pipe bombs in and around new york city. 27-year-old jose pimentel, arraigned and made bail an hour ago. a muslim convert to plotted to bomb nypd pa control car, post office and returning u.s. troops and he was doing much more than just talking about it. our deb feyerick is here to tell us more and it appears this lone wolf was acting alone. reporter: absolutely and under surveillance about two years. jose pimentel, 27 years old, preparing as many as three pipe bombs. had he built and executed them properly he could have killed upwards of a dozen people. before arrested the nypd bomb experts built and detonate add similar device. you see it on the screen. they showed it last night. the device was detonated ins
thanks so much. just hours from now, eight presidential candidates will square off in tampa, florida. rick perry the front-runner and also the main target of his fellow republicans. and perry may have made the bull s-eye even bigger by attacking social security, a program considered sacred by millions of older americans. jim accosta is in tampa. and let s begin with word of a new endorsement we re hearing about this morning. reporter: that s right. if mitt romney was looking for a spark to help his campaign, he may have gotten it this morning. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty has announced that he is getting behind the former massachusetts governor. so that is good news for mitt romney. but this debate comes this evening, kyra, as a new cnn/orc poll shows that there is a big lead for rick perry. the race is basically boiling down to rick perry and whoever can keep up. texas governor rick perry has ditched his cowboy boots for his running shoes, staying far ahead of th