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British Scrutinize Madoff Payments to Banker’s Operations

LONDON (NYTimes) — British authorities have started an investigation into millions of dollars of payments from the operations of the convicted money manager Bernard L. Madoff to companies linked to the Austrian banker, Sonja Kohn, an Austrian official confirmed on Friday.
The Serious Fraud Office had asked Austrian prosecutors in May for help in investigating payments [...]

AP Source: 10 others to be charged in Madoff probe

NEW YORK (AP) – Federal authorities are pressing a probe of 10 associates of Bernard Madoff despite a sentence that means the mastermind of one of the biggest financial frauds in history will spend the rest of his days behind bars, The Associated Press has learned.
A person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the [...]

Prosecutors: Sentence Madoff without delay

NEW YORK (AP) – A judge should not delay Bernard Madoff’s sentencing even though investigators have yet to determine how much money investors lost in the disgraced financier’s multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, prosecutors said.
A fragmentary record of the activities of Madoff’s firm, some of it going back as far as 1979 and on microfilm that needs [...]

Prosecutors indicate Madoff plea may be in works

By LARRY NEUMEISTER
Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – Prosecutors filed a motion Friday indicating that Bernard Madoff may be ready to plead guilty to charges that he carried out one of the biggest financial frauds in history.
The U.S. Attorney’s office suggested Friday in a brief court filing that Madoff is ready to waive an indictment. [...]

Jail or penthouse? US judge to rule on Madoff bail

NEW YORK (AP) – Bernard Madoff could be forced to trade his luxurious penthouse for a jail cell.
A New York City judge is set to rule Monday on whether the disgraced financier should have his bail revoked and be sent behind bars.
Madoff is accused of burning investors in a $50 billion fraud.
While free on bail, [...]

Madoff lawyer says client will provide asset list

Stephen Bernard, Associated Press Writers
NEW YORK — An attorney for Bernard Madoff said the disgraced Wall Street money manager would give the Securities and Exchange Commission a list of his personal assets by 5 p.m. EST Wednesday to comply with a court order. The list will provide an account of property that could eventually be [...]

Hearing scheduled on $28M Madoff trustee request

NEW YORK (AP) – A Manhattan bankruptcy judge will hear a request by the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s investment firm for a $28 million transfer to cover expenses.
A hearing on trustee Irving Picard’s request is scheduled for Tuesday. The trustee outlined the terms of an agreement reached with the Bank of New [...]

Some Jews fear Madoff case stokes anti-Semitism

Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Writer
This Dec. 17, 2008 file photo shows Bernard Madoff, chairman of Madoff Investment Securities, returning to his Manhattan apartment after making a court appearance in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)
NEW YORK — Of all the words that have been used to describe the Bernard L. Madoff scandal, the most emotionally [...]

Foundation to shut down, says Madoff managed money

NEW YORK (AP) – One of the United States’ leading educational philanthropies announced that it would close in the coming months, brought down by the alleged financial fraud orchestrated by Bernard Madoff.
Barbara Picower, who along with her husband, Jeffry, established the Picower Foundation in 1989, said in a statement on Friday that the foundation’s grant-making [...]

Alleged Madoff fraud has worldwide exposure

By JOE BEL BRUNO and JANE WARDELL
AP Business Writers
NEW YORK (AP) – The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street’s biggest pyramid schemes is growing, snaring some of the world’s biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich and the famous, pensioners and charities.
The alleged victims who sunk [...]