Bernie Madoff News

We all like to think we're smart and self-sufficient. A lot of folks believe they can manage their financial lives by themselves.

Victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, for example, might have avoided big losses had they noted that his custodian and brokerage firm were the same company.

I love my job. There's a certain thrill that comes with investing, making a good call and enjoying the big profits.

A Massachusetts appellate panel has given a group of 27 investors who lost $20 million in hedge funds linked to Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme the go-ahead to continue suing audit firm KPMG in court.

The financial institution that came to epitomize the "too big to fail" concept should have been left to its own economic destruction during the days of the Great Recession it helped to cause back in 2008-09, because had it been allowed to go under, its criminal behavior would have ended then.

Bernie Madoff is naming names again. But the only living person he is trying to implicate says the disgraced former financier is a liar.

A new exhibit at the Crime Museum includes a master key to Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities at 885 Third Ave.

If you have the guts to blow the whistle on a Wall Street investment fraud and approach U.S. regulators with your allegations, beware the case of Kathleen Furey.

Bernie Madoff used to live a life of luxury at the expense of many who lost their life's savings dealing with him.

If regulation-hating conservatives were serious about shrinking government, they should go whole hog and press for the elimination of the Securities and Exchange Commission .

"I used to work as a clerk in the commissary, and now they have me taking care of the telephone and the computer systems," said Madoff, speaking by phone from a federal prison in North Carolina.

Convicted felon Bernie Madoff, who masterminded what is believed to be the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S financial history, is serving a 150-year sentence behind bars while the liquidators of Madoff Securities International try to find a buyer for his yacht.

One thing both The Republic and Pearce lack: A sense of shame. Prepare for 15 seconds of commercial before the foot-licking begins.

Chairman Rupert Murdoch weighed in on the controversy surrounding J.P. Morgan Chase's CEO and chairman, Jamie Dimon, via a tweet late Thursday.

A federal judge in New York approved a hotly disputed fee for lawyers who negotiated a $217 million settlement with Madoff "feeder funds," but only after leveling harsh criticism at the firms for trying to obtain excessive markups for low-paid contract attorneys.

The president's new choices for Commerce secretary and FCC chair underscore how far down the rabbit hole his populist conceits have tumbled.

JPMorgan Chase is one of America's largest and most highly regarded banks. But in the past few years, it has paid out several billion dollars to settle lawsuits from consumers and regulators.

Every year JP Morgan shareholders get together for their annual kumbaya meeting on the state of the bank, and every year a few agitators propose that CEO Jamie Dimon give up his position as Chairman of the Board.

There have been estimates that the number of broker-dealers registered with FINRA fell by nearly 10% between 2005 and 2010, a trend that has continued over the past couple of years, and is expected to be seen in the future, due to a couple of key factors.

The law firm of Irving Picard, right, has reeled in hundreds of millions of dollars cleaning up the mess of Ponzi convict Bernard Madoff, left.