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Decision and order of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, George Kimeldorf v. First Union Real Estate Equity and Mortgage Investment, Sept. 4, 2003.
William Ackman, broadcast e-mail, “A Lesson in Probability,” Sept. 25, 2003.
U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Farmer Mac: Some Progress Made, but Greater Attention to Risk Management, Mission, and Corporate Governance Is Needed” (GAO-04-116), Oct. 16, 2003.
Christine Richard, “Reinsurance Probe Reaches Out to MBIA—Government Subpoenas Focus on 1998 Transaction Linked with a Bankruptcy,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 24, 2004, p. C3.
William Ackman, letter to Steven Walker and Walton Kinsey at the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jan. 9, 2004.
“Presentation to the Securities and Exchange Commission Regarding MBIA,” Gotham Partners Management Co. LLC and Kroll Zolfo Cooper LLC, Feb. 3, 2004.
Martin Peretz, letter to William Donaldson, July 12, 2004.
“MBIA Receives Document Subpoenas Regarding ‘Non-Traditional Products,’ ” MBIA press release via Business Wire, Nov. 18, 2004.
“MBIA Provides Additional Information Regarding Subpoenas,” MBIA press release via Business Wire, Nov. 23, 2004.
Gotham Partners, Is MBIA Triple-A?
Elliott, letter to shareholders.
CHAPTER 10 SCRUTINY
Jonathan Laing, “Truth and Consequences,” Barron’s, Apr. 4, 2005.
Thornton L. O’glove, The Quality of Earnings: The Investor’s Guide to How Much Money a Company Is Really Making (New York: Free Press, 1987), p. xii.
Lawton Burns, John Cacciamani, James Clement, and Welman Aquino, “The Fall of the House of AHERF: The Allegheny Bankruptcy,” Health Affairs, vol. 19, January/February 2000 no. 1.
William Ackman, notes from Aug. 14, 2002, meeting with Jay Brown.
MBIA Inc. conference call, Sept. 11, 1998, Gotham Partners transcript.
“MBIA Does Not Expect Philadelphia Hospital Group Bankruptcy to Affect Earnings,” MBIA press release via Business Wire, July 21, 1998.
E-mail from former senior executive at MBIA to William Ackman, “A Very Good Research Piece,” Dec. 15, 2002.
Gotham Partners Management Co. LLC presentation to Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, “MBIA Inc./MBIA Insurance Corp.: Insurance Law and Martin Act Issues,” Jan. 27, 2005.
William Ackman, e-mail to New York Attorney General’s Office, “Continued False Statements and Misleading Disclosure by MBIA,” Feb. 7, 2005.
William Ackman, e-mail to the New York Attorney General and the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apr. 10, 2005.
Ted Hampton, “MBIA’s Elliott Sees Steady Course Under Successor,” Bloomberg News, Jan. 8, 1999.
O’glove, The Quality of Earnings, p. xiii.
MBIA Inc. 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jan. 12, 2005.
“MBIA to Restate Financial Statements for 1998 and Subsequent Years,” MBIA press release via Business Wire, Mar. 8, 2005.
“MBIA Document Subpoenas Supplemented,” MBIA press release via Business Wire, Mar. 30, 2005.
“MBIA Purchases Shares as Part of Its Buyback Program,” MBIA press release via Business Wire, Apr. 4, 2005.
William Ackman, letter to Pershing Square investors, “Re: First Quarter 2005 Performance,” Apr. 25, 2005.
Bethany McLean, “The Mystery of the $890 Billion Insurer,” Fortune, May 2, 2005.
William Ackman, e-mail to John Rutherfurd, Apr. 20, 2005.
John Ruherfurd, e-mail to William Ackman, Apr. 22, 2005.
CHAPTER 11 THE BLACK HOLE
Video of Capital Asset Board Meeting, Capital Asset headquarter, West Palm Beach, Florida, Sept. 24, 1998.
Richard Heitmeyer, letter to Jay Brown, Aug. 27, 1999.
Jay Brown, MBIA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, letter to Richard A. Heitmeyer, Sept. 7, 1999.
Professor Frank Mantello, Chair, Department of Greek and Latin, Catholic University of America, e-mail to author, May 20, 2005.
Christine Richard and Mark Whitehouse, “MBIA Didn’t Tell Full Exposure to Capital Asset, Ex-Partner Says,” Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2005, p. C3.
Letter from William Ackman to the New York Attorney General, Securities and Exchange Commission, U.S. Attorney’s