NEW YORK — Five former employees of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff enriched themselves and helped “perpetuate Madoff’s elaborate fiction” by weaving an elaborate web of lies that for decades duped investors and government regulators, a prosecutor said Wednesday as the ...

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NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors say one of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff’s former controllers will plead guilty in New York to conspiracy charges in history’s largest Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors said in a letter to a judge late Tuesday that ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. — New York’s top court says a divorced Manhattan lawyer is stuck with his losses from an investment with disgraced financier Bernard Madoff that tanked two years after his divorce settlement. The Court of Appeals has rejected Steven ...

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NEW YORK — A federal judge has affirmed a bankruptcy court ruling that thousands of clients of funds that invested money with jailed financier Bernard Madoff do not qualify for payouts that reimburse Madoff customers. The decision made public Thursday ...

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Maybe now it’s official: Maryland’s elected leaders live in — and nurture — a culture of corruption. And yet, how sad for those lawmakers — the overwhelming majority — who work hard and play by the rules. There’s no platform ...

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NEW YORK — Everyone’s mad at Irving Picard. To be fair, his job is thankless: He’s the court-appointed bloodhound in charge of hunting down money for the victims of Bernard Madoff, a man who was so skilled at hiding money ...

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A Maryland appellate court has partially revived a lawsuit brought by an investment manager and his firm for $10 million in losses related to the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. The Court of Special Appeals’ decision Wednesday will allow several counts ...

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A murmur went up from the courtroom gallery in Owings Mills as the defendant’s name was called in the case of U.S. v. Bernard L. Madoff. Sensing a tough crowd, the accused stood up and opened his wallet, as if ...

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Welcome back to everyone who was out of the office over the holidays, and Happy 2010! A variety of legal news clippings to smooth your way back to working a full week: First, 2009 is behind us, and according to ...

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With Bernie Madoff on every investor’s mind, our sister paper, Virginia Lawyers Weekly, offers this post on a recent decision by the 4th Circuit.  “The appellate court’s unpublished opinion in Browning v. Tiger’s Eye Benefits Consulting is worth a look ...

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