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His enormous fraud left behind a devastating human toll and paper losses totaling $64.8 billion. Bernard L. Madoff, the one-time senior statesman of Wall Street who in 2008 became the [...]

Of all the regulatory concerns about the fund industry, the most persistent worries are perhaps those focused on money market mutual funds, which now hold more than $2.6 trillion in [...]

Investors have embraced bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds as sound and solid places to keep their money. But that growing popularity rings alarm bells with some regulators, who worry [...]

Andrew H. Madoff, the last surviving son of the convicted swindler Bernard L. Madoff, died on Wednesday in a Manhattan hospital, where he had been undergoing treatment for cancer. He [...]

Updated, 9:13 p.m. | A federal jury on Monday found five associates of the convicted swindler Bernard L. Madoff guilty of 31 counts of aiding one of the largest Ponzi [...]

It was the first global Ponzi scheme -- a slow-motion crime wave that began in the Manhattan offices of a stockbroker named Bernard L. Madoff, spread to wealthy enclaves in [...]

The largest category of victims in the vast Ponzi scheme run by Bernard L. Madoff -- those who lost cash through accounts with various middleman funds -- will be first [...]

THIS is the kind of market that makes cautious investors long for the comfort of cash. Stocks? They seem a little frothy. Bonds? Ugh -- low rates, inflation worries. Real [...]

8:48 p.m. | Updated Peter B. Madoff was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison for crimes that helped his brother, Bernard L. Madoff, swindle investors out of billions [...]

Maybe 'Ponzi scheme' should have its own spot in the Dewey Decimal System. Along with biographies of the schemers, a growing stack of scholarly references, legal tomes and articles aims [...]

ATTENTION, American investors: Do you know who runs your mutual fund? Until a year ago, the answer might have seemed clear enough. Investors, as well as regulators and judges, would [...]

For nearly four decades, as the second-in-command at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities, Peter B. Madoff ran the family business alongside his older brother. On Friday, Peter Madoff - more [...]

Clients of J. Ezra Merkin, a prominent Wall Street hedge fund manager who invested his clients' money in Bernard L. Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme, will recover more than $400 million [...]

This month, as Bernard L. Madoff completes the third year of a 150-year sentence for masterminding his global Ponzi scheme, the top courts in the United States and Britain are [...]

SUGARCREEK, Ohio THIS village is as sweet as its name. Main Street climbs gently from a tidy railroad crossing, past a few gift shops to the simple brick First Mennonite [...]

AS Europe was lurching from crisis to crisis in late October, a Norwegian lender -- a $40 billion bank with a strong credit rating, four blue-chip owners and a 50-year [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED ''I made the tragic mistake of trying to change the way money was managed and was successful at the start, but lost my way after a while and [...]

Joseph E. Robert Jr., an international real estate investor with a talent for turning troubled properties into profits -- including billions of dollars' worth of assets from the collapse of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Bill Miller, a legendary mutual fund manager, said Thursday he was stepping down from the Legg Mason fund that had long made him a star on Wall Street [...]

A former trader at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities is expected to plead guilty on Monday to conspiring to defraud firm customers beginning in the early 1970s, two decades earlier [...]

For the second time this year, a federal judge has barred a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee from seeking billions in damages from big banks and other third parties to help compensate [...]

She stayed, and it cost her more than she ever imagined. For nearly two years after Bernard L. Madoff confessed to running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, Ruth Madoff [...]

On Christmas Eve 2008, two weeks after Bernard L. Madoff confessed to running history's largest Ponzi scheme, he and his wife, Ruth, attempted suicide in their Manhattan penthouse. Mrs. Madoff [...]

A federal appeals court in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday that Finra, an important regulator of Wall Street for more than 70 years, does not have the right to take its [...]

8:23 p.m. Updated The first batch of checks for eligible victims of Bernard L. Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme will go into the mail starting Wednesday, according to the trustee liquidating [...]

The trustee for Bernard L. Madoff's fraud victims said on Thursday that he had overestimated how much his recovery efforts would be affected by a court ruling this week in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED A ruling this week in a case the trustee for victims of Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme had filed against the owners of the New York Mets could [...]

HOSTILE TAKEOVER The reinsurer Validus Holdings said on Wednesday that it would seek to replace the board of Transatlantic Holdings. Transatlantic's shareholders are scheduled to vote next week on a [...]

MIND OF MADOFF Despite initial doubts about his claims, Bernard L. Madoff, below, the convicted swindler, is actually working with a faculty member at Harvard Business School on a case [...]

A federal appeals court panel reviewing one of the fiercest legal disputes to arise from Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme ruled on Tuesday that the embattled trustee's approach on how [...]

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the bankruptcy trustee trying to recover billions for those who lost money in Bernard L. Madoff's enormous Ponzi scheme did not have the [...]

Two mortgage servicing companies have agreed to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on the homes of at least 178 military service members and to set aside a minimum [...]

This article was adapted from ''The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust,'' by Diana B. Henriques, a reporter for The New York Times. The book, to [...]

A new federal bankruptcy court filing on Thursday showed that three current members of JPMorgan Chase's executive committee had discussed, as early as June 2007, the possibility that Bernard L. [...]

A 15-year veteran of the federal Food and Drug Administration and his 25-year-old son were arrested on Tuesday and charged with systematically using confidential information about pending drug applications to [...]

The Justice Department is investigating allegations that a mortgage subsidiary of Morgan Stanley foreclosed on almost two dozen military families from 2006 to 2008 in violation of a longstanding law [...]

If former Gov. Mario Cuomo of New York wanted to see what he faces as the designated mediator in the legal battle between the owners of the New York Mets [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED BUTNER, N.C. -- Bernard L. Madoff said he never thought the collapse of his Ponzi scheme would cause the sort of destruction that has befallen his family. In [...]

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 [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED While Sgt. James B. Hurley was away at war, he lost a heartbreaking battle at home. In violation of a law intended to protect active military personnel from [...]

8:21 p.m. Updated A scandal flush with superlatives added yet another on Friday with a $7.2 billion legal settlement, the largest single forfeiture in American judicial history, to benefit the [...]

Getty ImagesMark Madoff in 2005, at his father's firm in New York. Last Friday, the publisher of a promising real estate newsletter called Sonar Report rose before dawn, scoured the [...]

The lawsuits filed by the trustee seeking money for Bernard L. Madoff's fraud victims may be a blow for the defendants - but they are catnip for an obscure breed [...]

Bernard L. Madoff announced Monday, through his lawyer, that he would not seek to attend funeral services held for his son Mark, who committed suicide early Saturday morning, ''out of [...]

A lawyer for the Austrian banker accused in a civil complaint on Friday of being an accomplice in Bernard L. Madoff's worldwide Ponzi scheme said on Sunday that the charge [...]

Mark Madoff, the older of Bernard L. Madoff's two sons, hanged himself in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest for running a gigantic Ponzi [...]

9:13 p.m. Updated A prominent Austrian banker who portrayed herself for two years as one of Bernard L. Madoff's biggest victims was accused on Friday of conspiring for 23 years [...]

Amid growing worries about state budget deficits and pension burdens, one bright spot in the municipal bond market has been data showing that foreign investment had climbed to record-setting levels. [...]