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New Mini-Madoff Debuts!
Meet Scott Rothstein, the new mini-Madoff to the tune of some $100 million. Now with special bonus. He's a big giver to politicians of both parties -- and a close friend of and fundraiser for Gov. Charlie Crist, the increasingly...
Friday Doc Dump Happy Hour
In addition to the White House visitor logs, the looong-awaited FBI notes from its interview of then-Vice President Dick Cheney in the Valerie Plame case have also been released, by coincidence in a case unrelated to the visitor logs. Just...
Flatulence and Finance
A friend posted a photo of this sculpture on Facebook this morning. The installation is by Chen Wen Ling and is part of his solo exhibit, "Emergency Exit," at the Joy Gallery in Beijing (click on photo for larger version):...
His Dee-lux Apartment in The Sky
Slideshow: Bernie Madoff's NYC penthouse is on the market for a cool $9.9 million....
Fox Almost Took Over Henhouse?
Bernie Madoff claimed he was on the "short list" to be appointed chairman of the SEC. Maybe just a boast to keep SEC investigators off his trail, but a scary thought anyway....
Breaking on Madoff
Madoff gets 150 years. Gotta figure he's not going to be alive in 150 years. So I guess you'd call that life. Zack Roth has more....
Clawback
Bloomberg: "The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's defunct money management firm told 223 investors to return as much as $735 million or face legal action, said a person familiar with the matter."...
If You Can't Do the Time ...
A former federal prisoner who is now a consultant advising potential future white collar inmates (Wall Street Prison Consultants!!!) on how to survive prison confirms to TPMmuckaker that a woman claiming to be a relative of Bernie Madoff contacted him...
How Dare We Ask Questions
NYT public editor Clark Hoyt has weighed in on the Madoff op-ed disclosure issue. You know, the issue that editoral page editor Andrew Rosenthal blew off our questions about last week....
Full Disclosure
So the New York Times runs an op-ed piece that makes the novel argument that Bernie Madoff's victims weren't really victims because "no one was holding a gun to anyone's head." But it turns out that the author, writer Daphne...
Latest Micro-Madoff
Party honchos respond to Franken/Coleman decision....
A Knight's Tale
Sir Allen Stanford's criminal defense lawyer, the famed Dick DeGuerin of Houston, tells TPMmuckraker that his client is a victim of Bernie Madoff's scam, too, albeit indirectly: "They got egg all over their faces when they failed to sufficiently oversee...
Going Down
Not looking good for wannabe-Madoff Sir Allen Stanford. His #2, James Davis, just flipped and is having a heart to heart with the FBI....
Wow, I Needed That
As part of their efforts to make the scale and scope of Bernie Madoff's crimes clear to Judge Denny Chin in deciding the terms of his plea, confinement and eventual sentencing, the folks at the US Attorney's Office for the...
Turtles All the Way Down
From the Daily Beast ... An employee who worked in Madoff's legitimate brokerage operations, described by the fraudster in his plea agreement as being "successful and profitable," has told The Daily Beast that they were in fact money losers that...
On Chase Being on the Line for Madoff
From TPM Reader MM ... Granted they were different banks (North Fork vs. Chase), but you gotta love that Eliot Spitzer's transactions of a few thousands of dollars here and there raised alarms, led the bank to report them to...
Where He Kept the Money
Could Chase be on the line (financially, not criminally) for some of Madoff's fraud?...
Guilty
I know these things are not straight confessions of the heart. An allocution in such a high stakes case is closely lawyered. Nonetheless you might find it interesting to take a moment to read the text of Bernie Madoff's statement...
Things Looking Up
Not just Citi. Mini-Madoff Sir Allen Stanford says: We're hiring!...
Just Like Madoff -- Again
As we found in the case of Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, we're now discovering that numerous government agencies had heads-ups or even started investigations (that were later shut down) into Sir Allen Stanford's Antigua-based banking empire. Of particular interest is...
