a painting of mcintosh street in georgia painted in the 1940's by a man, frank stanley herring.aw this painting after i had written this next poem and after i talked to my grand mother and she mentioned this street to me. i didn't know it existed because by the time i was coming up the black business district was gone. and the past few years i think they erected a monument to it. nigger street. 1937. mcintosh street the sign reads like the apple. red but not red delicious red but like red on red eyes gravy on grit the and stop lights and green and yellow. and red like those powders and syrups kept behind the counter at blocks pharmacy. red. and red like the stripe on richard's barb bar pole and the stitches on button holes on over alls of those coming to down on saturday. solid red at the blue moon and red like the eyes of the late staying patrons on sunday mornings. and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together, closing. red as a congregation rises. [applause]. >> this references a lynching. the lynching of 2 couples in monroe, georgia

and frank avellino, for misleading investors. stanleychais made so much money from the scheme, a court- appointed trustee claims he must have known of the fraud. michael bienes and his wife dianne are selling their 16,000- square-foot home and have moved into a small apartment. did you have any warning that anything was amiss? >> as god is my only judge. on my mother's grave. not an inkling. may he strike me dead. >> smith: bienes has hired a lawyer, though no lawsuits have been filed. >> good morning, mr. sorkin. >> good morning, how are you? >> smith: his old attorney, ira sorkin, is now representing madoff. fairfield greenwich has seen multiple lawsuits filed. they range from gross negligence to fraud. in late december, planned year- end multi-million-dollar bonuses for jeffrey tucker, walter noel and andres piedrahita were cancelled. one more postscript: a few blocks from where madoff began his investment advisory business nearly 50 years ago, thierry de la villehuchet took his own life. >> thierry was a sailor, and he was a hunter.