Articles by tag - madoff

Irving Picard, the Madoff trustee, is taking a very aggressive approach vis-à-vis Madoff investors. Since he believes that the entire fund was a fraud, he has ruled that each investor is only entitled to a return of their basis.
Posted on June 10, 2009 by
It is impossible not to wonder if this is the doing of Harry Markopolos.
Posted on February 18, 2009 by
We will get a new headline about an exposed hedge fund every day for most of 2009.
Posted on January 27, 2009 by
The judge is keeping Madoff out of jail and comfy in his penthouse apartment in New York. This decision came down today even while everyone else, including the government prosecutor, is clamoring for his head and for burying him in jail. It is obvious what is going on.
Posted on January 12, 2009 by
Madoff may have been the tip of the iceberg, but there are more like him. I've seen them myself. You probably have too.
Posted on January 03, 2009 by
The press is moving Bernard Madoff back from the front pages, but every day the story becomes more and more amazing.
Posted on January 03, 2009 by
Along with every alumni of Tufts University, I received the following email yesterday. The email raises many simple questions, such as: why does the President of Tufts not follow simple capitalization rules and capitalize the word University? Or, why is the University's endowment so small? But, it also raises a host of much more troubling issues about a heard mentality that involved blindly chasing returns. Particularly, how could so much of the University's money be placed with a single fund without simple due diligence that would have uncovered the fact that Madoff's accountants weren't real? Seems like a lot of money was blindly thrown in one man's direction without the simplest investigation by any investors.
Posted on December 21, 2008 by

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