Bernie Madoff

News and interviews on Bernie Madoff including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.

Thursday, 25 November 2010

Capital expenditure jumps 6.2% in September quarter, UBS sued over alleged Madoff links: Economy Roundup

A trustee looking to recover funds has sued UBS AG for over $US2 billion claiming they collaborated in a Ponzi scheme with Bernard Madoff.
 

Monday, 01 February 2010

Team rich

As some struggling millionaires have been forced to slash their household staff numbers, we look at the crucial people the rich rely on.
 

Tuesday, 01 December 2009

How divorce can destroy your business

Divorce is a very expensive business. Ask John Cleese. The 70-year-old actor is facing a hefty divorce settlement after 17 years of marriage (no kids) to Alyce Faye Eichelberger. Cleese must pay his ex $US19.7 million, around $US13 million in cash and assets, as well as $US987,000 per year for the next seven years.
 

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Computer programmers arrested for Madoff scandal

A pair of computer programmers has been arrested in the US by the FBI for allegedly falsifying bank accounts for conman Bernard Madoff.
 

Friday, 04 September 2009

New report reveals the tricks Madoff used to evade authorities

A new report shows how former financier and convicted felon Bernie Madoff tricked the US watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission.
 

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Unraveling the Madoff mystery

We finally have some insight into what drove Bernie Madoff’s claims to commit an incredible fraud: a fear of failure.
 

Bernie Madoff sentenced to 150 years jail – but where is the money?

Madoff’s silence on lost funds has chained him to an unprecedented jail sentence for corporate fraud.
 

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

The myth of greed

It's time to take a good hard look at the outmoded ideas of human behaviour that have been perpetuated by economic theory - seems like altruism lives after all.
 

Friday, 20 February 2009

Billionaire fraudster finally found, but scandal spreads

Allen Stanford, the billionaire financier accused of perpetrating a $12 billion fraud, has finally been found by US justice officials, two days after investigators put his company, Stanford International Bank, into receivership.
 

Wednesday, 18 February 2009

US billionaire accused of $12 billion fraud

Federal agents directed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission raided Stanford Financial Group's Houston offices this morning.
 

Wednesday, 07 January 2009

Fraudster Bernie Madoff could spark the biggest regulatory reform since the Depression: Bartholomeusz

Bernie Madoff was the 70-year-old architect of one of the world’s biggest and longest-running Ponzi schemes.
 
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