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- Born: June 4, 1937, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaNNDB: Mort Zuckerman
- Education: BA, 1957, law degree, 1961, McGill University, 1957; MBA with distinction Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1961; LLM, Harvard University, 1962Boston Properties: Morton B. Zuckerman
- Co-founded Boston Properties in 1970Boston Properties: Morton B. Zuckerman
- Chairman and editor-in-chief of the U.S. News & World ReportNew York Daily NewsBoston Properties: Morton B. Zuckerman
- Publisher of the New York Daily NewsBoston Properties: Morton B. Zuckerman
- Annual compensation 2007: $3,266,346Business Week: Mortimer B. Zuckerman
- Zuckerman invested 10% of his $300 million trust in Madoff's fundBloomberg: Mort Zuckerman Charity Lost $30 Million With Madoff (December 15, 2008)
- He was notified of the losses in a December 12, 2008Bloomberg: Mort Zuckerman Charity Lost $30 Million With Madoff (December 15, 2008)
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Mort Zuckerman (Mortimer Benjamin Zuckerman) is the CEO and chairman of Boston Properties Inc., the editor-in-chief of the US News and World Report and the chairman and co-publisher of the New York Daily News.US News and World Report: Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Zuckerman is also the chairman of a charitable trust, which lost $30 million when investment broker Bernard Madoff confessed his brokerage was a complex fraud.Bloomberg: Mort Zuckerman Charity Lost $30 Million With Madoff (December 15, 2008)
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"Just so you understand what my connection to it was, I never heard of this guy Madoff, I've never met him, I've never done business with him. I have a charitable trust, and this charitable trust has a lot of money and it's invested by a number of fund managers. One of those fund managers put some of the charitable trust monies into Madoff's funds and that money was, it was about 10% of the value of the charitable trust and that money which otherwise would have been given away is now lost."—Mort ZuckermanCNBC: Zuckerman's Charitable Trust Loses $30 Million (December 15, 2008)