Rene Thierry Magon De La Villehuchet

Madoff Just the Start of Post-Bubble Scandals

Diane Francis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business


Diane Francis

The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.

Suicide Contagion: Will Madoff Investor's 'Act of Honor' Be the Last?

Douglas Faneuil | Posted 02.06.2009 | Media


Douglas Faneuil

Praising a suicide as honorable may come with an extremely high price: namely, more suicides. News organizations have a duty to temper such judgments -- not to censor them, but to put them in context.

Madoff Investor's Suicide Was An "Act Of Honor", Brother Says

Bloomberg | Alan Katz | Posted 02.03.2009 | Business


Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet's sense of honor led the descendent of French army officers and an ennobled shipping family to commit suicide after he...

Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet, Madoff Investor Who Committed Suicide, Lost Family Fortune

AP | GREG KELLER | Posted 01.26.2009 | Business


PARIS — Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet saw his fortune and his loved ones' money disappear along with his clients' when he lost $1.4 billi...

Thierry de la Villehuchet: Madoff Investor Dies After $1.4 Billion Lost

AFP, Bloomberg, Huffington Post | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business


(SCROLL FOR A PHOTO OF VILLEHUCHET) UPDATES THROUGHOUT French money manager Thierry de la Villehuchet died of a likely suicide in his New York office...