Securities Investor Protection Corp. v. Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC

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Case Number:

1:08-ap-01789

Court:

New York Southern

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  1. March 07, 2017

    Madoff Investors' $65B Suit Against Picower Tossed In NY

    A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday said that a proposed $64.8 billion class action brought by Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC customers against former Madoff associate Jeffry Picower is blocked by a 2011 settlement, pointing to the dismissal of a similar suit.

  2. January 30, 2017

    Merkin Loses Bid To KO Clawback In Madoff Bankruptcy Case

    A New York bankruptcy judge on Monday said evidence supported the notion that disgraced financier J. Ezra Merkin was willfully blind to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme and rejected Merkin's attempt to avoid trial in a clawback suit involving hundreds of millions of dollars.

  3. November 21, 2016

    BakerHostetler Seeks $34M In Fees For Madoff Trustee Work

    BakerHostetler on Friday asked a New York bankruptcy judge for more than $33.8 million in fees for its work unraveling Bernie Madoff's bogus securities firm and securing money to pay back victims of his massive Ponzi scheme.

  4. October 31, 2016

    Madoff Trustee Decries Firm's Bid to Have Him Testify

    Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee liquidating Bernie Madoff's fraudulent investment firm, has urged a New York bankruptcy judge to exempt him from testifying in an upcoming hearing, calling a law firm's bid to have him do so a harassment attempt.

  5. October 28, 2016

    Madoff Trustee, Calif. AG Reach $277M Deal With Investor

    The family of a prominent Bernie Madoff investor has agreed to settle long-standing litigation brought by a court-appointed trustee and California's attorney general in a deal that will recoup victims of the massive fraud up to $277 million, according to papers filed Friday in New York bankruptcy court.

  6. October 19, 2016

    Bid To Argue Tossed Madoff Clawback Claims Gets Denied

    A New York bankruptcy judge denied a bid by the liquidating trustee of Bernie Madoff's investment firm to relitigate previously dismissed clawback claims against two accountants on Tuesday, saying only claims tied to the firm can proceed since it and Madoff are separate entities.

  7. October 17, 2016

    Madoff Trustee Decries 'Personal Attacks' In Clawback Fight

    Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee liquidating Bernie Madoff's fraudulent investment firm, challenged a discovery request Friday in a New York bankruptcy court lawsuit that seeks to recover $1.5 million from former Madoff customers, saying their attorney is resorting to personal attacks against him.

  8. September 27, 2016

    Ex-Milberg Atty Tagged In Kickback Plot Settles Madoff Suit

    A former Milberg Weiss partner who was sentenced to prison for his role in a scheme to secretly pay individuals who agreed to serve as class action plaintiffs has resolved a separate lawsuit to recover millions of dollars he received by investing in Bernie Madoff's bogus securities trading business, according to court documents filed Tuesday in New York.

  9. August 25, 2016

    Ex-Madoff Aide Agrees To Assist Trustee Liquidating BLMIS

    Former Bernie Madoff account manager Annette Bongiorno has agreed to assist the court-appointed trustee liquidating Madoff's firm in tracking down customer property that was tied up in the massive Ponzi scheme, as part of a multimillion-dollar settlement, according to New York bankruptcy court filings Wednesday.

  10. August 05, 2016

    Chaitman LLP, Madoff Trustee Trade Sanctions Demands

    In an increasingly testy series of letters to the New York bankruptcy judge overseeing the Bernard Madoff case, a lawyer representing a seven-person investment partnership demanded Thursday that trustee Irving Picard be sanctioned for "improper and abusive" use of subpoenas, a move that came in response to Picard's demand that the attorney herself be sanctioned for time-wasting and misrepresentations.