JPMorgan settles Madoff fraud claims for $1.7B
The New York-based bank is settling claims related to Bernard Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme that cost investors billions. JPMorgan was Madoff's primary bank in the later years of a fraud that spanned decades. Ref. USAToday
Jury returns guilty verdicts in security fraud trial of five former employees of convicted Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff. The five-month trial featured a drumbeat of evidence that the ex-employees conspired with Bernard Madoff to fool investors by fabricating and backdating records of financial trades that purportedly generated steady investment returns. Ref. USAToday
A scheme this big must of had many helpers. If the feds press more they will find even more of those greedy whores.
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Bernie Madoff dies at age 82. The financier pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in history and died in prison. Bernie Madoff, the financier who pleaded guilty to swindling thousands of clients out of billions of dollars in investments over decades, died early Wednesday in a federal prison in North Carolina, according to BOP spokeswoman Kristie Breshears. Ref. USAToday.