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Steroids, Stocks and Too Good to Be True

Karen Firestone | Posted 03.19.2013 | Business
Karen Firestone

We need to consider when results, whether for cyclists, pitchers, runners, fund managers, or public companies are perhaps too good to be true and how we might look for the signs.

Mets and Madoff

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.20.2012 | Politics
Jeff Danziger

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Gary Ackerman Retiring

AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 03.16.2012 | New York

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...

Judge: Mets Owe Up To $83 Million

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.05.2012 | Sports

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...

Mark Madoff's Widow Chronicles Family Fall In New Book

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 12.20.2011 | New York

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...

Can Anyone Stop the Next Madoff?

Jeff Prosserman | Posted 10.25.2011 | Business
Jeff Prosserman

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.

How to Handle Hedge Fund Investing

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 08.27.2011 | Business
Gemma Godfrey

How can you, as an investor, handle hedge fund investing? Be strategic, be sensible and speak up.

Madoff Trustee Triples Size Of JPMorgan Lawsuit

Posted 08.25.2011 | Business

NEW YORK (Jonathan Stempel and Jochelle Mendonca) - The trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff's victims is now demanding $19 billion in damages...

HSBC Reaches Settlement Over Madoff Lawsuit

Posted 08.07.2011 | Business

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...

Madoff Underwear Sells For $200 At Florida Auction

AP | Posted 08.05.2011 | Business

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...

LOOK: Peter Madoff's $6.5M Mansion Hits The Market

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 08.02.2011 | New York

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...

Robert De Niro Taking On Epic Criminal

Posted 07.13.2011 | Entertainment

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...

The Shameful Performance of JP Morgan Chase Re: Madoff

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Robert Lenzner

I am astounded, stunned, shocked and ferociously outraged by the amoral performance of the establishment bank in America -- JP Morgan Chase (JPM,NYSE)...

Madoff Interview: Banks 'Had To Know' Of Ponzi Scheme

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...

Madoff Victims To Get Up To $500 Million From Swiss Bank

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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 ...

JP Morgan May Be Complicit in Madoff Scam

Robert Lenzner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Robert Lenzner

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.

Madoff Victims' Trustee Files Dozens Of Lawsuits

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

NEW YORK — Relatives of both Bernard Madoff and his wife are among those being targeted in 40 lawsuits announced Friday by the trustee endeavori...

FBI Arrests Two Former Madoff Associates

AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

NEW YORK — Two longtime back office employees of Bernard Madoff were arrested Thursday on charges that they helped the disgraced financier dupe ...

U.S. Marshals Sued For Selling Off Forfeited Assets Below Actual Value

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

An arm of the United States Marshals Service undervalued what could amount to untold millions of dollars in assets forfeited by white-collar criminals...

Mark Madoff's Family Was Going To Change Name To 'Morgan'

Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

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 ...

Mark Madoff's Body Moved To Gramercy Funeral Home

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

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...

Madoff, My Son & NYU

Esmeralda Williamson-Noble | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Esmeralda Williamson-Noble

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...

Mark Madoff Suicide: Bernie Madoff's Son Found Hanged In NYC Apartment

AP | COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...

As We Wait For Christmas, Wall Street Salivates for Its Bonuses

Danny Schechter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Danny Schechter

Go, Wall Street, Go!

JPMorgan Worried Madoff's Returns Were 'Too Good To Be True'

The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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...