a last-minute change to the bill is propping criticism for its benefits to president trump and one republican senator whose vote congressional leaders were eager to flip, bob corker. it would allow real estate businesses to take advantages of tax breaks, providing a multimillion dollar windfall to investors. senator corker said in an interview saturday that his change in vote had nothing to do with it. so he ller is on cop or is on capitol hill with the latest. taxain to us this news break. sahil: it s a combination of what was in the house and the senate bill. it was done uniquely in the final version, but includes a benefit for real estate pass through investors that includes president trump and figures like senator bob corker. the fact that corker had mysteriously flipped his vote seemingly out of the blue on friday has raised a lot of questions as to whether this was the reason. senator corker strenuously denies he had anything to do with this provision or it had anythi
t. matt: mark wells was outside his home at the time, the plane narrowly missing him. mark wells: i think the guy knew he was in trouble, and the field back there is the perfect place. he was trying to save everybody else, i guess. matt: the aircraft went down in an empty field behind the skytop view rehab center at south lake hospital in clermont, an area surrounded by residential homes. witnesses reported seeing fuel leaking from the wreckage, but the crash did not cause a fire. wells rushed to help, but there was nothing he could do. so i went ahead and approach and i saw the guy was gone. matt: right now, investigators are trying to figure out what caused the plane to crash. witnesses reported seeing it come in at a steep angle from the west before hitting the ground. investigators combed the wreckage of the vans rv-8a, an experimental aircraft which is sold in kits and built at home. faa records show the 2002 aircraft is registered near chicago to a pilot with ties to
pull off this scam today? given the same security measures? yep. easily. piece of cake. sam eshaghoff s scam was getting paid thousands of dollars to take the s.a.t. test for other students. he did it at least 16 times, scoring in the 97th percentile of the country. i would call him an academic gun for hire. that s what he was. welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i m bob simon. in this edition, we examine two very different kinds of fraud. bernie madoff s wife and surviving son break their silence about wall street s most infamous criminal. and later, we visit a high school con man who figured the best way to make the grade was to cheat the s.a.t.s but first, in december 2008, bernie madoff confessed to running a $65-billion ponzi scheme, the largest financial fraud in history. while madoff is serving 150 years in prison, his family had to deal with the consequences of his crimes. his wife ruth divested of most of her great wealth and derided by a suspicious world. the
(watch ticking) safer: so this was the scene of the crime. irving picard gave us a tour of bernie madoff s 19th-floor offices, an impressive landscape of emptiness. his desk was here. safer: picard has the thankless task of finding the money, the billions that madoff scammed. (watch ticking) arlan galbraith who called himself the pigeon king convinced hundreds of american and canadian farmers there was good money to be made raising the birds for food. and everybody we talked to said this guy was he was on the up and up. nobody had a bad word to say about him. (watch ticking) stahl: welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i m leslie stahl. in march 2009, bernard madoff pleaded guilty to perpetrating what s believed to be the largest financial fraud in history. he received the maximum sentence for his crime, 150 years in prison. but while madoff is behind bars, there s still much we don t know about the scam which involved, by some accounts, a fraud of more than $50 billio
something wrong? it took me five minutes to know that it was a fraud. it took me another almost four hours of mathematical modeling to prove that it was a fraud. (watch ticking) safer: so this was the scene of the crime. irving picard gave us a tour of bernie madoff s 19th-floor offices, an impressive landscape of emptiness. his desk was here. safer: picard has the thankless task of finding the money, the billions that madoff scammed. (watch ticking) arlan galbraith who called himself the pigeon king convinced hundreds of american and canadian farmers there was good money to be made raising the birds for food. and everybody we talked to said this guy was he was on the up and up. nobody had a bad word to say about him. (watch ticking) stahl: welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i m leslie stahl. in march 2009, bernard madoff pleaded guilty to perpetrating what s believed to be the largest financial fraud in history. he received the maximum sentence for his crime, 150