Last year, to add a little levity to the miserable doldrums of Wall Street, Cognito came up with some special cocktails for its holiday party with nam...
Steven Mesler | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
There is no other organization in the city that covers as much ground as the Philoctetes Center. But it was gutted by Bernard Madoff, and its days are now numbered unless it gets a helping hand.
Dave Hollander | Posted 11.18.2009 | Sports
Like Napolean in exile, Backman, a former minor league manage of the year and one of several active cynosures of the 1986 Mets glory, has been toiling in exile from the major league system since 2004.
AP | VERENA DOBNIK | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- It was about fascination with big money – and the life of a couple at the center of the biggest financial fraud c...
AP | CURT ANDERSON | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A vintage 55-foot yacht named "Bull" and two smaller boats that once belonged to imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff are...
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's m...
Lesley Stern | Posted 11.12.2009 | Comedy
If you're quivering with rage just thinking about Wall Street, it's time to take action. I've discovered a way to achieve a semblance of inner peace without therapists, tranquilizers or weapons.
Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
We all know it's a bad time for real estate. But even the luxury homes formerly owned by jailed financier Bernard Madoff are having a tough time selli...
AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — A man who made billions of dollars off Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme signed a will leaving the bulk of his fortune to charity, but th...
Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The Fort Hood shootings no more reflect on the whole of Islam or South Asians than Timothy McVeigh or James Von Brunn reflect on white, Christian males.
Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
Jeffry Picower's untimely death left in limbo, if not totally silenced, crucial questions about the role he played in what may be the greatest disappearance act in the annals of financial history.
Huffington Post | Mallika Rao | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Bernie Madoff is only one of the white-collar offenders exposed this year for bilking the country out of millions. Whether stealing from dying family...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Bernard Madoff's longtime auditor pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges Tuesday, saying he failed to do his job to verify the disgra...
Dan Solin | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
The news reinforces my belief that there is something rotten at the core of the financial services industry. I am not discussing old news like Bernie Madoff. Here are some items that crossed my desk this week.
nypost.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
Talk about getting caught in a jam. After watching his team go down to defeat this season, Mets owner Fred Wilpon now faces potential "clawback" suit...
AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Fallen financier Bernard Madoff has plunged from his Manhattan penthouse to the lower bunk of a cell he shares with a drug offender a...
Hillary Rubin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
A few weeks back I was in a weekend workshop with some incredible people. Over lunch one of the men that was sitting at the table began to talk about ...
Reuters | Tom Hals | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business
Two victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday, seeking at leas...
Posted 10.13.2009 | Business
For all of his billions in faked profits, convicted Ponzi Schemer Bernie Madoff recently got into a very real fight with a fellow inmate over the stoc...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
Nino Selimaj offered Madoff's victims free meals for an entire week at one of his seven city Nino's restaurants where the average dinner check, with wine, runs between $85 and $95 per person.
Dan Solin | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
Wealthy investors can be enticed to buy "alternative investments" like hedge funds and private equity deals. How is that working for them? Not well.
Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics
Entertainment headlines dominate week, thanks to Letterman and Polanski. Will Letterman's philandering help or hurt ratings? Will Polanski be extradited to US? Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted 09.30.2009 | New York
The latest Bernie Madoff-inspired art was displayed at a Beijing art gallery on Sunday. "What You see Might Not Be Real," by Chen Wenling depicts the...
Posted 11.25.2009 | Business
If Dalton Chiscolm has anything to say about it, Bank Of America may need another bailout. Chiscolm is suing the bank for '1,784 billion trillion doll...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that a review of most accounts held by financier Bernard Madoff's customers when he was arrested sho...
CNBC | Jane Wells | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business