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He is now being sued for his winnings. Ethan Miller/Getty Images Gabe Kaplan, star of Welcome Back Kotter, has been part of a long-standing, private poker game. He is now being sued for his winnings. Actor Tobey Maguire is one of a handful of celebrities being sued for allegedly winning cash that was stolen from investors in a Ponzi scheme. Former hedge fund manager Bradley Ruderman reportedly confessed to losing $5.2 million of investors' money in a weekly poker game.
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During the July 6 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends , co-host Steve Doocy interviewed high school teacher Leslie Moyer about the National Education Association's recent decision to charge members an additional $10 fee. On-screen text suggested that this fee would go toward President Obama's re-election campaign: In fact, as Media Matters has documented , the $10 fee will go toward efforts to limit threats to collective bargaining, like the recent legislation passed in Wisconsin. Further, as Education Week's blog Teacher Beat noted, the fees legally cannot go toward elective campaigns. A July 4 post stated: And that's not all: 70.1 percent of the body, or 5,258 delegates, approved the amendment to the bylaws that authorize the $10-per-member annual assessment, 60 percent of which will be used primarily to support the Ballot Measure/Legislative Crisis fund, and the other 40 percent for national and state media campaigns.
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