Sept. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities Inc. received a vote of confidence last week when U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood ruled that he is using valid theories to recover money customers took out of the Ponzi scheme before the fraud was discovered.
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Senior executives at JPMorgan Chase expressed serious doubts about the legitimacy of Bernard L. Madoff’s investment business more than 18 months before his Ponzi scheme collapsed but continued to do business with him, according to internal bank documents made public in a lawsuit on Thursday.
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HSBC continued to act for funds that fed money into Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme in spite of repeated warning from the bank’s own executives and outside auditors about the “baffling” and potentially fraudulent structure of the fund, according to a US lawsuit launched against the global bank.
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The victims of Bernard L. Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years in prison on Monday for his heinous financial crimes, deserve our sympathies. Given where this column is headed, I should probably make that point right up front.
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