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






