Rob borsellino biography
Rob Borsellino
Rob Borsellino (June 20, 1949 – May 27, 2006) was a newspaper columnist who worked for the Des Moines Register. His columns, which appeared three times weekly, became popular due to Borsellino's colloquial writing style and ability to tell a story straight from the heart. His columns appeared several times in such publications as USA Today, Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post, and a compilation of Borsellino's columns were published in his 2005 book So I'm Talkin' To This Guy... (ISBN 1-888223-66-9).
In November 2004, Borsellino was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. He announced his diagnosis in February 2005. During his fight against this illness, he had considerable community support, and on April 21, 2006, musicians Bob Dylan and Merle Haggard traveled to Des Moines to perform a concert in Borsellino's honor, raising over $100,000 for the ALS Association.
Borsellino died in Des Moines on May 27, 2006. He is survived by his wife, Rekha Basu, also a Register columnist; and his sons Raj and Romen.
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Lewis J. Borsellino
| Lewis J. Borsellino | |
| Occupation | Co-Owner & Director of Business Development |
|---|---|
| Employer | DefendEdge |
| Location | Chicago |
| @TRADELBJ | |
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Lewis J. Borsellino is a Chicago-based, entrepreneur, independent trader and author. He traded S&P 500 futures, Eurodollar futures and other contracts as a member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) starting in 1982. He is the co-founder and director of business development of DefendEdge, a cybersecurity firm.
Background
In the mid-eighties, Borsellino claims to have been responsible for 10 percent of a day's volume in the Standard & Poor's 500pit and to have accumulated more fines for physical incidents than any other floor member at the CME.
In 2005, NFA's Business Conduct Committee found that during 2001 to 2003 Borsellino disavowed multiple CME S&P 500 Stock Price Index futures trades, resulting in arbitration claims filed against him. Further, the panel found he refused to participate in the arbitration process in good faith. He was fined $50,000 and forced to sell his exchange membership.
Borsellino is the author of The Day Trader: From the Pit to the PC and The Day Trader's Course: Low-Risk, High-Profit Strategies for Trading Stocks and Futures, both published by by John Wiley & Sons in 2001.
After his trading career, Borsellino invested in nursing homes and served as the CEO of Prism Healthcare Group. However, the company experienced financial difficulties and filed bankruptcy for some of the facilities it owned.
Chicago Trading & Arbitrage, LLC Lawsuit
In 1996, Borsellino formed a company called Chicago Trading & Arbitrage, LLC with former New York Stock Exchange president and Archipelago Holdings founder Gerald Putnam and two software developers, Stuart Townsend and MarrGwen Townsend. The goal was to provide electronic tradi LOCAL Members of the Des Moines Register staff stand for a group photo at the south side production facility on May 23, 2024. The Des Moines Register celebrated its 175th anniversary on July 26, 2024. Its predecessor, the Iowa Star, was first published on July 26, 1849. A portrait of Barlow Granger, photographed at the State Historical Building, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Granger was the founding publisher of the Iowa Star, the earliest predecessor of what today is the Des Moines Register. The first edition published on July 26, 1849. Des Moines Register Editor Harvey Ingham, left, and owner and Publisher Gardner Cowles. The Des Moines Register had strong political clout under the direction of Gardner Cowles, right. In this 1935 photo, Cowles is with former President Herbert Hoover. The Des Moines Register & Tribune photo staff in 1940. The Register and Tribune were known from their beginnings for using the latest technology and for the quality of their photography. The original caption for this 1947 photo reads: This is a section of the general news desk in The Des Moines Register's spacious newsroom on the fourth floor of the new addition to The Register and Tribune building. Over this desk and through the hands of the telegraph editor ... and the copy editors "on the rim" pass all news stories on events in the city, the state, the nation and the world. Don Ultang, photographer, Des Moines Register, who, with John Robinson won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for photography for their sequence of six pictures from the 1951 Drake and Oklahoma A&M football game when Johnny Bright's jaw was broken. Gordon Gammack, left, who covered Iowa soldiers in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam, interviews Army Cpl. Don Borsellino is an Italian surname. Notable people with this surname include: Meet the Des Moines Register staff, some of the people behind the news, 1849 to present
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