AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 03.16.2012
NEW YORK -- Longtime U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman, a feisty Democrat known as much for scolding bankers and regulators as he was for his personal quirks li...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.05.2012
NEW YORK — The New York Mets' owners must pay up to $83 million to the trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff investors, a judge said Monda...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 12.20.2011
NEW YORK — The son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff swallowed a batch of sleeping pills in a failed suicide attempt 14 months before he kil...
Jeff Prosserman | Posted 10.25.2011
In late 1999, Boston-based securities analyst Harry Markopolos discovered Bernard Madoff was running the largest Ponzi scheme in world history. His team pursued the truth for nearly a decade, only to find no one would listen.
Gemma Godfrey | Posted 08.27.2011
How can you, as an investor, handle hedge fund investing? Be strategic, be sensible and speak up.
Posted 08.25.2011
NEW YORK (Jonathan Stempel and Jochelle Mendonca) - The trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims is now demanding $19 billion in damages...
Posted 08.07.2011
HSBC (HSBA.L) said it agreed to pay $62.5 million to settle a class action brought against it in the United States over its role in providing admi...
AP | Posted 08.05.2011
MIAMI -- Thousands of buyers vied for items that once belonged to convicted swindler Bernard Madoff, with 14 pairs of underwear going for $200 and a p...
AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2011
NEW YORK -- Bernard Madoff's brother has his New York mansion on the market for $6.5 million. Peter Madoff is selling off real estate as he faces a...
Posted 07.13.2011
Robert De Niro has played plenty of law-breakers in his illustrious career, but they all seem like petty thieves compared to the king of organized cri...
Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011
I am astounded, stunned, shocked and ferociously outraged by the amoral performance of the establishment bank in America -- JP Morgan Chase (JPM,NYSE)...
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011
More than two years have passed since Bernard Madoff was arrested for a massive Ponzi scheme which spanned 16 years and consumed roughly $20 billion i...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — A private Swiss bank has agreed to pay up to $500 million to investors defrauded by Bernie Madoff. The trustee appointed to recover ...
Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011
JP Morgan could be "complicit", i.e. aiding and abetting the Madoff Ponzi scheme, by omission -- that is not fulfilling its duty as a fiduciary -- as well as by commission, according to white collar lawyers I have consulted today.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Relatives of both Bernard Madoff and his wife are among those being targeted in 40 lawsuits announced Friday by the trustee endeavori...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Two longtime back office employees of Bernard Madoff were arrested Thursday on charges that they helped the disgraced financier dupe ...
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
An arm of the United States Marshals Service undervalued what could amount to untold millions of dollars in assets forfeited by white-collar criminals...
Posted 05.25.2011
Dealbook has a fascinating examination into who Mark Madoff was before he took his own life. Sources close to Madoff said he was mortified by his ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The body of Mark Madoff was claimed by a funeral director on behalf of his family Tuesday, one day after his imprisoned father, Berna...
Esmeralda Williamson-Noble | Posted 05.25.2011
As the mother of a suicide victim, the news of 46 year-old Mark Madoff's apparent suicide by hanging earlier this morning, has left me... I don't exac...
AP | COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Every day for two years, he carried the toxic burden of a name that meant fraud to the world. On Saturday, the eldest son of disgrace...
Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011
Go, Wall Street, Go!
The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
Bernie Madoff's outrageous, unflagging returns struck a JPMorgan employee as "too good to be true" two months before his arrest, according to newly un...
Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011
It took consultant Chris Cutler only four days to discover the smoking gun: The options volume that Madoff had reported exceeded, by far, the total volume of puts and calls actually traded in those securities on the Chicago Board of Options Exchange.
Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.20.2012