Robert De Niro is to star as disgraced financier Bernie Madoff in an HBO movie that he will also produce, according to reports.

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For a guy who has been sentenced to 150 years in prison for a $65 billion Ponzi scheme, you can’t really blame him for indulging in some old-fashioned escapism. “I spend most of my time in my room, reading,” Bernie Madoff told Financial Times reporters…

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Madoff Talks Fraud and Danielle Steele

Another black eye for the SEC: The agency’s top lawyer, David Becker, and his brothers inherited more than $1.5 million from their mother that she had earned in Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. The trustee overseeing the case, Irving Picard, has demanded…

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Top SEC Lawyer Inherits Madoff Cash

New York Mets fans have something new too complain about: Fred Wilpon, the team’s main owner, and Saul Katz, the team’s president, met with MLB commissioner Bud Selig Tuesday to discuss the team’s finances, which are in shambles from Bernie Madoff’s…

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Did Madoff Sink the New York Mets?

A Manhattan judge on Tuesday revoked the $5 million bail for Annette Bongiorno, Bernie Madoff’s trusted secretary who is accused of pocketing $14.5 million in her boss’s massive Ponzi scheme. Federal judge Laura Taylor Swain said Bongiorno has an…

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Judge Revokes Madoff Secretary’s Bail

The estate of Jeffrey Picower, the billionaire who benefited from Bernie Madoff’s epic fraud, has reached a settlement with a trustee liquidating Bernie Madoff’s estate that will give an additional $7 billion back to Madoff’s swindled investors. The $7…

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Madoff Victims Secure $7 Billion

There will be no funeral for Mark Madoff, the son of Bernie Madoff, as his family has opted for cremation without a service or viewing, the New York Post reported Tuesday. Madoff was found dead Saturday after he hanged himself with a dog leash, and his…

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No Funeral for Mark Madoff

And so the long, complicated process of taking back money from Bernie Madoff continues. A federal bankruptcy court-appointed trustee, Irving H. Picard, this week filed 40 lawsuits seeking $69 million against people who invested with Madoff and withdrew…

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Madoff Family Sued for $69 Million

Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Charges are expected to be unsealed Thursday afternoon against Joanne Crupi, who was arrested by the FBI Thursday morning at her home in New Jersey, and Annette…

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FBI Arrests Two Madoff Aides

Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Charges are expected to be unsealed Thursday afternoon against Joanne Crupi, who was arrested by the FBI Thursday morning at her home in New Jersey, and Annette…

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FBI Arrests Two Madoff Aides

Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Charges are expected to be unsealed Thursday afternoon against Joanne Crupi, who was arrested by the FBI Thursday morning at her home in New Jersey, and Annette…

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FBI Arrests Two Madoff Aides

Two more suspects have been arrested in connection with the Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Charges are expected to be unsealed Thursday afternoon against Joanne Crupi, who was arrested by the FBI Thursday morning at her home in New Jersey, and Annette…

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FBI Arrests Two Madoff Aides

Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff’s belongings from his luxurious Upper East Side penthouse and Montauk, New York, beach house went up for auction Saturday, with some of the proceeds going toward a fund for his victims. Hundreds packed the Sheraton Hotel and…

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Madoff Auction Nets $2M for Victims

Bernie Madoff’s victims, who were collectively swindled out of more than $50 billion, effectively recouped more than $2 million on Saturday in an auction of the investment titan-turned-villain’s personal items.

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Auction of Madoff stuff nets $2 million

For all the Bernie Madoff aficionados out there: While the Ponzi schemer serves a 150-year prison sentence, 400 items Madoff bought with his stolen billions are heading to a Manhattan hotel to be auctioned off Saturday. The U.S. Marshall Service will…

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Madoff Loot to Be Auctioned in New York