New York has a new hero in the form of 32-year-old realtor Jason Haber, the guy who told Moammar Qaddafi's representatives that he would only find them a lavish Upper East Side New York abode if they returned the convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi to Scotland and the prison he...

Earlier today the White House put out a press release noting that President Obama spoke with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and expressed his "disappointment" over the Lockerbie affair. (In case anyone has been under a rock these past few weeks, Brown has been at the center of a controversy...

Yesterday, I wrote how Britain's Sunday Telegraph claimed that Libya paid three doctors to give the Scottish government medical evidence that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, 57, the convicted Lockerbie killer, had only two or three months to live, when in fact he may have more.

The British Mail on...

In Britain's Sunday Telegraph, the British reporter Andrew Alderson claims that Libya paid three doctors to give the Scottish government medical evidence that Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, 57, the convicted Lockerbie killer, had only two or three months to live.

In fact, other doctors, according to Alderson's report, said...

A few weeks ago, in July, US families of the Lockerbie victims gathered in front of a TV screen in both the British embassy in Washington, DC and in the consulate in New York.

They were connected via video conference with Scottish justice minister Kenny MacAskill, who discussed with them...

I just received an email from a Madoff victim who is still reeling from the double-whammy of having watched his wealth vanish, and learning that the soft-spoken financier he considered a friend is in fact a crook -- possibly it's now been reported -- with cancer. (Prison authorities deny this)....

I have not yet finished David Wessel's In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic -- mostly because -- full disclosure -- I'm scribbling away on my own book: The Great Mistake: The Fall of Lehman Brothers and the Weekend That Changed The World for John F...

Never let it be said that journalism doesn't reap results!

Last week I wrote how Andres Piedrahita, 50, the major shareholder of Fairfield Greenwich, the feeder fund that lost $7 billion of investors' money to Bernie Madoff, was summering on his new $30 million yacht, Oxygen. His publicist, Tom Mulligan...

I have unwelcome news of Andres Piedrahita, the brash Colombian chief shareholder of Fairfield Greenwich, the investment group mostly owned by the Noel family, that gave half their money under management -- $6.9 billion dollars -- to Bernie Madoff, and yet who took one percent of clients fees and twenty...

I have seldom been as relieved to read an article as one that appeared last week by New York Times writer Andrew Das. It began: "In the moments after I felt the pop in my left shoulder, the sensation I felt was not pain. It was panic. How exactly does...

The Russian businessman I was having a drink with lived in London. "I prefer London to New York right now; in London not everyone talks about their depleted bank balance; in New York everyone does," he said. I agreed. But then a friend took me for a late dinner at...

Anyone who thinks Michelle Obama should use tea with the Queen as an experimental fashion platform is sadly deluded. I cannot believe some of the suggestions I am reading on this site.

Bare shoulders at Buckingham Palace during the day would be seen as a tremendous insult to our monarch.

Details magazine has dictated that the sexiest woman on the planet is not Scarlett Johansson, or Gisele Bundchen, but Jennifer Aniston -- who is 40.

Meanwhile, People magazine puts Italian actress Valerie Bertinelli, 48, in a bikini on its cover. Cindy Crawford, 43, is covered in soap suds in Allure.

My neighbor at dinner, a hedge-fund manager originally from Texas, was emphatic.

"If your only identity is in your job or your money then there is no point living in New York any more," he said. "Anyone who thinks like that will leave."

He had a point. This town seems...

These days it's not just financial journalists who follow the movements of financiers. So, too, do the entertainment channels and press. Who could have predicted the day would come when OK! magazine would care what mode of transport Ken Lewis, Bank of America's chief, uses? But according to the New...

Following inquiries with locals in North Salem, I am happy to report that the ponies formerly stabled with Paul Greenwood, the alleged fraudster, are safe.

They were quickly moved and dispersed among other stables up and down the East Coast as Greenwood realized the net was closing in on him,...

For all those worried about the hundred or so valuable show ponies stabled in North Salem by alleged fraudster Paul Greenwood and his wife Robin, here's an update -- with hopefully another to come.

After Greenwood, 61, and his partner Stephen Walsh were arrested last month for allegedly siphoning off...

My English friend was worried. "I guess the next step is getting American-accent lessons," she said over dinner the other night.

She is a peer of mine -- we were at Cambridge together -- and she has wound up in New York working in a senior position for an American...

Among the articles in Vanity Fair's April issue is a report I did on the Noels, the infamously good-looking, gregarious family of Walter Noel, founder of the investment group Fairfield Greenwich, which had $6.9 billion--almost half of its assets under management--invested with Bernie Madoff. Now that that money is...

New York's latest financial criminal mastermind -- and remember, we now have one a day being unveiled -- is Paul Greenwood, 61, the bow-tied town governor of North Salem, New York's horsey area. (Until recently it's where the American Olympic equestrian team trained.)

Greenwood spent the alleged $500 million he...