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  2. The mini-Madoff of Brooklyn, and the customers who can ... - AOL

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    The Madoff of the moment is Philip Barry, a Brooklyn-based investment advisor who faces a host of charges for what's looking like a $40 million Ponzi scheme. But even as government investigators ...

  3. Recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal

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    Ruth Madoff's combined assets with her husband had a net worth of between $823 million and $826 million.She had $92.6 million in assets listed in her own name: [9] the $7 million penthouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side; an $11 million mansion in Palm Beach, Florida; a three-bedroom apartment in Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera valued at $1.5 million; $45 million in municipal bonds and $17 ...

  4. Madoff investment scandal - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Philip Barry - Wikipedia

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    December 3, 1949 (1949-12-03) (aged 53) New York City. Occupation. Dramatist. Genre. Theater. Philip Jerome Quinn Barry (June 18, 1896 – December 3, 1949) was an American dramatist best known for his plays Holiday (1928) and The Philadelphia Story (1939), which were both made into films starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant.

  6. Participants in the Madoff investment scandal - Wikipedia

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    The complaint alleged Chais "knew or should have known" he was deep in a Ponzi scheme when his family investments with Madoff averaged 40% and sometimes soared as high as 300%. It also claimed Chais was a primary beneficiary of the scheme for at least 30 years, allowing his family to withdraw more than $1 billion from their accounts since 1995 ...

  7. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.

  8. List of investors in Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities

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    Investors in Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC lost billions of dollars in the Madoff investment scandal, a Ponzi scheme fraud conducted by Bernard Madoff.The amount missing from client accounts, over two thirds of which were fabricated gains, was almost $65 billion. [1]

  9. Towers Financial Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Steven Hoffenberg, Jeffrey Epstein, Mitchell Brater, and Michael Rosoff. Towers Financial Corporation was a debt collection agency based in Manhattan in New York City. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Between 1988 and 1993, Towers Financial ran a Ponzi scheme that was the largest financial fraud in American history prior to Bernie Madoff 's being uncovered.