Posts Tagged ‘bernard’

Mets Players Unfazed by Legal Case Involving Owners

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

The Mets dropped their spring training opener to the Nationals after the team’s owners were ordered to pay up to $83 million to the trustee representing Bernard L. Madoff’s victims.

Original post:
Mets Players Unfazed by Legal Case Involving Owners

Murray through to Brisbane final

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

Andy Murray breezes into the final of the Brisbane International with a 6-3 6-2 victory over Australian teenager Bernard Tomic.

Excerpt from:
Murray through to Brisbane final

DealBook: Madoff’s Ex-Controller Expected to Plead Guilty Next Week

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Enrica Cotellessa-Pitz, the former controller of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, would be the sixth person, including Mr. Madoff, to admit to participating in his vast Ponzi scheme.

Read more from the original source:
DealBook: Madoff’s Ex-Controller Expected to Plead Guilty Next Week

Madoffs Tried to Commit Suicide, Wife Says

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Ruth Madoff said in an interview that she and Bernard L. Madoff attempted suicide two weeks after the Ponzi scheme was exposed in 2008.

Read more:
Madoffs Tried to Commit Suicide, Wife Says

DealBook: Madoff Victims Set to Receive $312 Million Payout

Tuesday, October 4th, 2011

The first batch of checks for eligible victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s epic Ponzi scheme will go into the mail starting Wednesday.

Read more:
DealBook: Madoff Victims Set to Receive $312 Million Payout

Former SEC official denies Madoff ‘conflict’

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Former SEC general counsel David M. Becker said Thursday he has been wrongly criticized for helping steer SEC policymaking related to the Bernard Madoff fraud even though his mother’s estate included an account with Madoff . “I didn’t think I had a conflict,” Becker said in testimony to Congress. “I did precisely what I was supposed to do,” he said, noting that he told the SEC chairman about the account and consulted an SEC ethics officer, who advised him that he could participate in the policymaking. Read full article > >

View post:
Former SEC official denies Madoff ‘conflict’

Review: ‘Imagining Madoff’ at Theater J

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Deb Margolin’s “Imagining Madoff” has a firm identity as The Play That Angered Elie Wiesel: Last year the Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, one of the many bilked by the herculean Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, objected to Margolin’s portrayal. So Margolin was compelled to write Wiesel out of her fiction. Read full article > >

Originally posted here:
Review: ‘Imagining Madoff’ at Theater J

S.E.C. Files Were Illegally Destroyed, Lawyer Says

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

A lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission said that thousands of documents involving inquiries into Bernard L. Madoff and other matters were destroyed.

View post:
S.E.C. Files Were Illegally Destroyed, Lawyer Says

Rwanda genocide fugitive arrested

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

A Rwandan genocide suspect, Bernard Munyagishari, is arrested in eastern DR of Congo after being on the run for 17 years.

See the article here:
Rwanda genocide fugitive arrested

Mets Owners Rebut Charges in Madoff Suit

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz say evidence that they had no reason to suspect Bernard L. Madoff has been ignored.

Continue reading here:
Mets Owners Rebut Charges in Madoff Suit

S.E.C. Chairwoman Under Fire Over Ethics Issues

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

Mary L. Schapiro is facing Congressional questioning about a former general counsel who weighed in on the Bernard L. Madoff case even though he had a financial interest in it.

See the original post here:
S.E.C. Chairwoman Under Fire Over Ethics Issues

Roger Ailes Told Employee to Lie

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

That was the sound of the other shoe dropping. Publisher Judith Regan said five years ago that someone at News Corporation had asked her to lie to federal investigators about an affair with Bernard Kerik-but she didn’t say who. Now a new affidavit…

Here is the original post:
Roger Ailes Told Employee to Lie

Mets’ Owners Guarded an Investment Pipeline

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Fred Wilpon’s and Saul Katz’s referrals to Bernard L. Madoff’s funds carried restrictions on direct contact with him.

Read the rest here:
Mets’ Owners Guarded an Investment Pipeline

Suit Says Mets Owners Ignored Warnings on Madoff

Friday, February 4th, 2011

The owners “consciously disregarded” signs of fraud, according to a suit on behalf of Bernard Madoff’s victims.

Read the original here:
Suit Says Mets Owners Ignored Warnings on Madoff

To Madoff Victim, Mets Owners Dropped Ball

Friday, February 4th, 2011

The widow of a former employee of Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz says in a lawsuit that fiduciary duties were breached when employees were allowed to invest with Bernard L. Madoff.

See the original post:
To Madoff Victim, Mets Owners Dropped Ball