October 19, 2016
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.
October 17, 2016
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.
September 27, 2016
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.
August 25, 2016
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.
August 05, 2016
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.
July 21, 2016
BakerHostetler on Thursday asked a New York bankruptcy judge for more than $34.9 million in fees related to the firm's work winding down Bernie Madoff's firm from December through the end of March.
July 14, 2016
Alexandre Chemla, the founder of private jet service ALTOUR, has settled a lawsuit brought by the court trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernie Madoff's shuttered securities firm that sought to recover nearly $1 million in bogus profits he received, according to papers filed Thursday in New York.
June 30, 2016
The liquidation trustee for Bernard Madoff's failed securities firm on Thursday said he has started to hand out about $190.2 million to investors who fell victim to Madoff's Ponzi scheme, bringing the total recovery to about $9.47 billion.
June 15, 2016
A New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday approved a plan to distribute $247 million to investors who fell victim to convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, nudging their total recovery to nearly $9.5 billion, court documents show.
June 01, 2016
Disgraced financier J. Ezra Merkin urged a New York bankruptcy court Wednesday to prevent trial in a lawsuit to recover hundreds of millions of dollars tied to investments in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, arguing Merkin was duped by the fraudster like numerous other investors.