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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.
Chevelle's song "Face to the Floor", as described by the band, was a "pissed off, angry" song about people who got taken by the Ponzi scheme that Bernie Madoff had for all those years." [208] The heroine of Elin Hilderbrand's novel, Silver Girl, published in 2011 by Back Bay Books, was the wife of a Madoff-like schemer. [209]
The recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal has been underway since the scandal broke in December 2008. That month, recovery trustee Irving Picard received funds from the Bank of New York account where Bernard Madoff held new investments into his Ponzi scheme. As it has been concluded that no legitimate investments were made on the ...
The fund for victims of Bernie Madoff’s historic Ponzi scheme has begun its ninth payout, distributing about $159 million in government-seized funds to nearly 25,000 people worldwide, the ...
Fifteen years after the FBI arrested Madoff on Dec. 11, 2008 for running a massive Ponzi scheme — and two years after his death in a federal prison — lawyers are still sifting through the ...
Bernie Madoff, who came to epitomize Wall Street corruption with his epic $65-billion Ponzi scheme, has died in prison of natural causes at age 82.
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]
The crimes of Bernie Madoff have faded from the headlines. But his Ponzi scheme was one of the biggest stories of the last decade.