Tag Archives: massive-fraud
Trustee sues Fairfield Greenwich funds for $3.54b
Boston Globe – The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s defunct money-management firm sued three Fairfield Greenwich Group hedge funds, seeking the return of $3.54 billion withdrawn before Madoff’s massive fraud unraveled. The trustee, Irving Picard, filed the so-called clawback lawsuit yesterday […]
Hunt for Madoff money to drag on for years
Reuters UK – Five months after Bernard Madoff’s massive fraud was revealed, little of his victims’ money has been found and it appears increasingly likely that the worldwide hunt for their missing billions will drag on for years. So far, […]
MassMutual hedge fund sued in loss
Boston Globe – A Boston law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against a hedge fund controlled by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. for placing all of the fund’s assets with Bernard Madoff, who is facing life in prison for […]
‘Maverick’ Billionaire Tearfully Denies Any Wrongdoing to Cameras
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – R. Allen Stanford’s fate may be up in the air with a looming trial and the accusations of a major Ponzi scheme, but that didn’t stop him from opening up to ABC News cameras outside of […]
Stanford workers had ties to regulator FINRA
Reuters – Two employees of Allen Stanford’s financial business, which U.S. regulators have accused of massive fraud, held advisory roles at a watchdog group overseeing U.S. broker-dealers aimed at preventing abuses. Lena Stinson, director of global compliance at Stanford Financial […]
Texas Money Manager Charged with $8 Billion Fraud
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Texas businessman Robert Allen Stanford yesterday along with three of his companies for running a fraudulent $8 billion investment scheme. "We are alleging a fraud of shocking magnitude that has […]
Madoff May Cost Insurers $1 Billion to Cover Funds
Bloomberg – Bernard Madoff’s alleged Ponzi scheme may cost insurers who cover financial institutions more than $1 billion as they pay legal costs for investment managers who gave client money to Madoff, an industry executive said. Insurers who sell such […]
SEC Staff May Have Neglected Red Flags in Hedge Fund Fraud
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – SEC Chairman Christopher Cox has launched a probe into his own agency after it surfaced that complaints made to employees regarding the possible misconduct of Bernard Madoff were never investigated. Saying that specific allegations had been […]
Madoff tries to stay out of jail as probe widens
Sify – Bernard Madoff, the long time Wall Street executive accused of cheating investors worldwide out of $50 billion, scrambled to find relatives or friends to guarantee his bond on Tuesday and keep him of jail. Bernard L. Madoff and […]
Hedge Funds, Other Large Institutions Burned By Madoff
New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Just days after what could prove to be the largest Wall Street sham in history, investors that were burned by Bernard Madoff are coming forward in droves. Spanish bank Santander, along with French bank BNP Paribas […]
