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The court-appointed trustee Irving Picard estimated actual losses to investors at $18 billion, and much of that money has been returned. [ 2 ] The 162-page list of clients (without investment amount), filed in United States bankruptcy court in Manhattan , was made public on February 4, 2009.
As of March 2024, the trustee had recovered $14.7 billion toward these claims through legal action against Madoff associates, feeder funds and beneficiaries of the scheme, and had made fifteen distributions to investors. [3] Action by the Department of Justice has recovered an additional $4 billion.
Jeffry M. Picower (May 5, 1942 – October 25, 2009) [1] [2] was an American investor involved in the Madoff investment scandal. [3] [4] He was the largest beneficiary of Madoff's Ponzi scheme, and his widow agreed to have his estate settle the claims against it by Madoff trustee Irving Picard for $7.2 billion, the largest single forfeiture in American judicial history.
The total amounted to more than $64.8 billion, according to The New York Times. In 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 federal felonies and admitted to his Ponzi scheme. He died in prison of kidney ...
At the time of his arrest on Dec. 11, 2008, Bernie Madoff had more than 4,900 active clients, with another 40,000 people whose investments had passed through Madoff’s company, Bernard L. Madoff ...
The Madoff investment scandal was a major case of stock and securities fraud discovered in late 2008. [1] In December of that year, Bernie Madoff, the former Nasdaq chairman and founder of the Wall Street firm Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, admitted that the wealth management arm of his business was an elaborate multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme.
Victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme will soon receive another $695.3 million from a government compensation fund, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday, less than two weeks ...
Irving H. Picard (born June 26, 1941) [1] is a partner in the law firm BakerHostetler. He is known for his recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal from investors, Bernie Madoff and his family, and their spouses and estates. Throughout the case, Picard's law firm was paid approximately $1 billion. [2]