Austrian Woman Who Gathered Billions From Wealthy Investors For Madoff Drops Out Of Sight

With an aggressive style that stood out in the staid world of Austrian banking even more than her bouffant red wig, Sonja Kohn made few friends gathering billions for Bernard L. Madoff from wealthy investors in Russia and across Europe.

Now, she has even fewer. Mrs. Kohn has dropped out of sight, leaving the firm she founded, Bank Medici, in the hands of Austrian regulators, who took it over last week.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[BlackYowe]

My Guess is she is part of this and helped him hide the money.

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

She is running from the Russian Mob or they got her already.

[getoffmedz]

yep

[thecanadian]

B.O.L. All Countries - All Tunnels :)

[GerryS]

Note to the SEC, if they care-----------

soon to be "ex- daughter inlaw" is bag lady #1

Mrs. Kohn could be bag lady #2

[Hare]

She does look like Madoff in drag, the nose the smile/mouth the wrinkles around the eyes. Where is she, wherever he is probably.

[waterfall]

Perhaps the reason for some of the suicides was complicated by very angry associates.

[rich misty]

One can hope

[Tremonius]

On one or more of the channels was the pretty trauma psychologist. She was experienced in such depressing times. She worked up her chops in New Orleans after Katrina, and now she works West Palm Beach after Madoff. Shot of the pearly bluegreen harbor, with the yachts all in a row; sullen, disconsolate.

[rkimball]

check the beaches of tahiti for a female under two palms in hammock being fanned by natives while sipping on a mai tai.

[Telemachus]

You're kidding! "Bank Medici"? As in the Medici family of 16th-century Italy, famous for money and corruption and countless assassinations by poison, stiletto and garrote?

Gawd, this whole thing is unwinding like a Scott Turow novel. If there weren't real people's life savings being stolen, it'd be a great read.

[philopatris]

(the site says or said that there was no connection with the real Medici family, the last of whose line died over 200 years ago)
(but it WAS a sinister choice of name)
(and it IS like a Scott Turow novel)

[markinaz]

She's toast.

[Felicty]

Not to worry - her body will soon turn up.

[Name Not In Use]

Float up.

[FreedomCorpse]

She sounds like a real world version Whoopi Goldberg in "The Associate" being the gatekeeper to Robert Cutty. Except the plot thickens with a giant ponzi scheme and the russian mob ready to dismember them.

[Tom95134]

Justice at the hands of the Russian mafia.... how fitting.

[Madmac]

The plot for smoking aces II is born...Can she outwit and evade the Oligarchs, The Justice Department, The Press, The SEC, etc? Time will tell

[Madmac]

And Brenda Lee Johnson's Confession Box

[jerrypl]

Every Ponzi Scheme has its fugitives. Maybe she is hanging with Tony Soprano.

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