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Ponzi scheme stories: 247 news summaries

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  All Wall Street a Ponzi Scheme 

Wall Street's just a Ponzi scheme too

Dec 19, 08 8:12 AM CST
(Newser) - Bernie Madoff’s $50 billion fraud wasn’t all that different from what his Wall Street peers were up to, writes Paul Krugman in the New York Times. Oh sure, “Madoff allegedly skipped a few steps,” stealing the money without bothering to load up on debt, buy... More »

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Wall Street • fraud • investment bankers • Ponzi scheme • financial crisis • Bernard Madoff

Authorities May Claw Back Madoff 'Profits'

Investors who gained from Ponzi scheme may lose too

Dec 19, 08 6:35 AM CST
(Newser) - While thousands of investors are furious with Bernie Madoff, he did manage to make a few people very rich during the boom years. With handsome if fraudulent returns of 10% to 17%, investors who withdrew even a fraction of their principal may have ended up in the black. But as... More »

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 SEC Had Dirt on Madoff in '06 

But, obviously, didn't pursue it

Dec 18, 08 11:37 AM CST
(Newser) - The SEC knew that Bernie Madoff was misleading them about how he was handling his customers' money in 2006, the Wall Street Journal reports, and noted multiple violations which, if investigated, would have laid bare his Ponzi scheme. Instead, Madoff’s firm was told to register as an investment... More »

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Madoff Shakes NY Real Estate Industry

Scandal jeopardizes dozens of projects; loans may be called in

Dec 18, 08 7:19 AM CST
(Newser) - New York's once booming real estate industry has already been struggling with the recession, but the revelation of Bernie Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme has hit commercial brokers and developers particularly hard. Deals across the city have been put in jeopardy, buyers have withdrawn pledges to purchase, and Madoff investments... More »

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(Newser) - SEC regulators are investigating whether Bernard Madoff's wife helped him cook the books in his $50 billion fraud scheme, Bloomberg reports. Investigators say that Ruth Madoff's name has shown up on transactions and that she may have helped track payments and keep secret records. Ruth, 67, has not been charged,... More »

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 Mukasey 
 Steps Off 
 Madoff Case 

Rogue financier, meanwhile, placed under house arrest

Dec 17, 08 1:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Attorney General Michael Mukasey is recusing himself from the Bernard Madoff investigation because his son is representing an employee involved with the fraud case, Bloomberg reports. Mukasey also graduated from an Orthodox Jewish school where Madoff’s wife has taught and which placed $6 million in the fraudulent scheme. A... More »

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Congress • SEC • house arrest • Michael Mukasey • Ponzi scheme • financial crisis • Bernard Madoff

 Bernie Madoff, 
 Gentleman 
 of Leisure 

Inside the personal life of America's favorite scam artist

Dec 17, 08 11:50 AM CST
(Newser) - Bernard Madoff maintained a very public life, and, like a perfect con man, no one thought he was capable of the crimes he stands accused of. Two weeks ago he popped into his  barber shop for his usual haircut, shave, mani, and pedi. “For me, he was a gentleman,... More »

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OPINION

Madoff Scheme Not Much Worse Than Legal Ones

End of communism
let Wall Street become unhinged: Friedman

Dec 17, 08 10:30 AM CST
(Newser) - Wall Street used to be the epicenter of capitalism that the whole world wanted to emulate, but, on a trip to Hong Kong, Thomas Friedman discovers that the American financial establishment has lost its credibility. "We don’t just need a financial bailout," he writes in the New ... More »

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China • ethics • Wall Street • communism • Asia • subprime mortgages • Hong Kong • capitalism • Chinese economy • Thomas Friedman • Ponzi scheme • financial crisis • Bernard Madoff

Middlemen
Lose Billions in Madoff Fraud

Hedge funds that sold access to Ponzi
scheme face collapse

Dec 17, 08 8:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Last week Walter Noel was a successful hedge fund manager, with houses from Connecticut to the Caribbean and an adulatory photo shoot in Vanity Fair. But overnight, when Bernie Madoff's giant Ponzi scheme was exposed, his $14.1 billion firm, Fairfield Greenwich Group, lost more than half its assets. While... More »

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Ex SEC Official's Marriage to Madoff Niece Investigated

Fraudster bragged of family ties to SEC

Dec 17, 08 5:15 AM CST
(Newser) - An SEC official dated and later married the niece of confessed fraudster Bernard Madoff, and the agency is investigating the link, reports the Wall Street Journal. Eric Swanson, an SEC director of compliance who left the agency, married Shana Madoff, a compliance lawyer at Madoff's firm, last year, but began... More »

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SEC Chief
Says His Staff Ignored Madoff Warnings

Cox calls actions 'deeply troubling'

Dec 16, 08 7:51 PM CST
(Newser) - SEC chief Christopher Cox blasted his own agency's failure to detect Bernard Madoff's massive investment-fraud scheme, the Wall Street Journal reports. Cox called it "deeply troubling" that SEC investigators had ignored "credible and specific allegations" dating back to at least 1999. He called on the SEC's inspector general... More »

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Madoff Victims May Be Able
to Sue Middlemen


Feeder funds could be headed to court

Dec 16, 08 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Bernie Madoff victims searching for avenues to recover their money will find their legal options depend on whether they invested directly with Madoff, Time reports, or though middlemen. Those who worked directly with Madoff will have up to $500,000 covered by the federal Securities Investor Protection Corporation. But... More »

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SEC Under Fire for Flubbing Madoff Warnings

Judge liquidates confessed fraudster's investment firm

Dec 16, 08 10:09 AM CST
(Newser) - The SEC is coming under fire for failing to spot what may be the biggest securities fraud in history, the Washington Post reports. The regulator received repeated warnings from 1999 onwards that Bernard Madoff's investment fund was fishy, but failed to conduct even a routine examination until Madoff blew the... More »

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Madoff Scam Puts Ponzi Back on Front Page

'At least conceptually, he was democratizing wealth': biographer

Dec 15, 08 2:30 PM CST
(Newser) - By now, we’ve all heard Bernard Madoff’s tremendous fraud operation described as a “Ponzi scheme”—which moved the New York Times to revisit history’s famous schemer. Whereas Madoff purported to trade stocks, Charles Ponzi’s con revolved around selling international stamps with outdated exchange rates.... More »

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More Banks, Celebs Losers
in Madoff Scam

BNP Paribas, RBS join charities of Spielberg, Wiesel as Ponzi victims

Dec 15, 08 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme, which federal investigators say cost investors $50 billion, continues to claim more victims, reports the Wall Street Journal. Spain’s Grupo Santander and France’s BNP Paribas said yesterday they’re on the list, as are charities involving Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel and director... More »

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Steven Spielberg • Royal Bank of Scotland • UBS • SEC • BNP Paribas • HSBC • Banco Santander • Ponzi scheme • securities fraud • Mortimer Zuckerman • Nomura Holdings • Frank Lautenberg • Bernard Madoff • Elie Wiesel

Madoff Scam Soaks Jewish Charities

His Wall Street
fraud will wipe out philanthropic groups

Dec 13, 08 12:08 PM CST
(Newser) - Rich investors and hedge funds aren’t the only ones losing their shirts in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Madoff was a giant in the small world of Jewish philanthropy, running millions for a variety of charitable organizations, the Washington Post reports. Deborah Coltin, for example, woke up yesterday... More »

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 Red Flags Didn't Stop 
 Colossal Madoff Fraud 

Steady returns, tiny auditors prompted questions

Dec 13, 08 10:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Bernard Madoff's investment operation—found this week to be a massive Ponzi scheme that lost as much as $50 billion—raised plenty of red flags over the last decade, the Wall Street Journal reports. As far back as 1999, Madoff’s steady returns in wide-ranging markets seemed unrealistic to some... More »

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Big Names Bilked in $50B
Madoff Fraud

Swindler was money manager of choice in elite circles

Dec 13, 08 5:59 AM CST
(Newser) - Some of America's wealthiest people are finding themselves a lot poorer in the wake of the Bernard Madoff fund scandal, the Wall Street Journal reports. Madoff strived to become known as the investor of choice in elite circles, and counted New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon and GMAC chairman Ezra... More »

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Madoff Fraud Will Hit Hedge Funds Hard

$50B Ponzi scheme will stagger funds, send investors to exits

Dec 12, 08 10:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Even as hedge funds face their worst yearly returns ever, they may take another collective $10 billion hit on money invested in Bernard Madoff’s namesake firm, which was revealed to be a giant Ponzi scheme yesterday, Bloomberg reports. Madoff was arrested and charged with fraud after admitting that his... More »

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Top Broker Collared for Running $50B Ponzi Scheme

FBI arrests Bernard Madoff; SEC on trail

Dec 11, 08 8:28 PM CST
(Newser) - The FBI has arrested a giant among Wall Street brokers and charged him with bilking his investors of up to $50 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. Federal agents busted Bernard L. Madoff, a former NASDAQ chaiman, after he admitted to employees that his investment advisory business was a "... More »

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Wall Street • FBI • NASDAQ • corruption • SEC • Ponzi scheme • defrauding investors • Bernard Madoff

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