Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York News

Published: Wednesday, July 8, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 9:14 p.m. Accused Ponzi schemer Arthur G. Nadel was only able to get three people to sign a $1 million personal recognizance bond -- part of his bid for freedom to await his trial at his Sarasota home.

The building in midtown Manhattan in New York where Bernard Madoff and wife Ruth own a penthouse apartment is seen in this aerial view on March 22, 2009.

It's the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York - and he hasn't even been convicted of a crime.

Madoff's wife Ruth was advised in advance of the marshals' plans and was leaving the residence, surrendering all personal property.

Bernie Madoff won't be headed to "Club Fed." The convicted Ponzi-schemer's 150-year sentence excludes him from the cushy minimum-security "work-camp" facilities where white-collar criminals often land.

"? A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes "extraordinarily evil." In pronouncing the sentence - the maximum he could have handed down - Judge Denny Chin turned aside Mr.

When Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff is sentenced on Monday, he'll be sent to a real prison with real bars and violent offenders, not a "country club" for white collar crooks, consultants say.

Confessed swindler Bernard Madoff will be allowed to wear his own clothing in court, instead of prison-issue garb, when he is sentenced on June 29, the judge in the case ruled on Wednesday.

Convicted Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff will probably spend the rest of his life in jail.

The meeting took place yesterday , at Bernie's office in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Admitted fraudster Bernard Madoff, the mastermind of history's biggest Ponzi scheme, met with the Securities and Exchange Commission's top watchdog this week, several knowledgeable sources told CNN.

The Metropolitan Correctional Center sits just across the street from the Federal Courthouse in downtown Manhattan.

By having Tanzanian Ghailani stand trial in New York, the Obama Administration has made an important step towards the shutting down of the Guantanamo prison.

Getty Images Left: Former Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani , accused in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, listens as his lawyer addresses the court.

The first terrorism suspect to be moved from Guantanamo Bay , Cuba, to the United States for trial appeared Tuesday in federal court in New York where he pleaded not guilty to 286 murder and conspiracy charges in the bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national who had been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility since September 2006, arrived early this morning in the Southern District of New York to face criminal charges stemming from his alleged role in the Aug.

The newest inmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center won't rub elbows with crooked financier Bernard Madoff or the accused Somali pirate.

U.S. authorities have brought the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to the United States, flying him into New York to face trial for bombing U.S. embassies, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

Even after pleading guilty to masterminding a $65 billion Ponzi scheme that decimated the lives of thousands across the country, Bernard Madoff is trying to get a break.

Four Newburgh men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near two synagogues in New York City and plotting to shoot down a military plane at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh were bent on carrying out a holy war against America, authorities said today.