Bernard Madoff

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The Commercial Court “routinely” adjudicates on international disputes involving billions of euros, the head of the court, Mr Justice David Barniville, has said.
Commercial court ‘routinely’ adjudicates on international disputes

The Irish commercial court “routinely” adjudicates on international disputes involving billions of euro, the head of the court, Mr Justice David Barni(...)

Bernie Madoff was jailed in 2009 after his firm was found to have engaged in a $65 billion Ponzi-type investment scam that evaded detection for decades.
Madoff seeks early release, claiming he has 18 months to live

Bernard Madoff, who defrauded investors of more than $19 billion in history’s biggest Ponzi scheme, has asked for early release from his 150-year pris(...)

President of AS Monaco Dmitri Rybolovlev and his daughter Ekaterina Rybolovlev. Photograph: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images
Panama Papers: How spouses at war hide assets offshore

Christopher Williams had been waiting 90 minutes inside the office of a helicopter tour company on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, keeping a careful ey(...)

Tina Turner has lived in Switzerland for nearly two decades and gave up her US citizenship in 2013.
Banking giant HSBC sheltered cash linked to dictators and arms dealers

Secret documents reveal that global banking giant HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in (...)

Bernard L. Madoff, chairman of Madoff Investment Securities is seen on his Manhattan trading floor in this photo taken Dec. 30, 1999 in New York. The former Nasdaq stock market chairman was arrested on a securities fraud charge in 2008, accused of running a phony investment business that amounted to nothing more than a “giant Ponzi scheme.” (Photograph: AP Photo/The New York Times, Ruby Washington)
Madoff trustee recoups nearly $500m more for customers

Former customers of Bernard Madoff may soon recover an additional $496.8 million as a result of a settlement with two “feeder funds” that was announc(...)

Louis Van Gaal at Old Trafford prior to a Champions League match between Manchester United and Bayern Munich in 2010. Photograph:Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images
Louis van Gaal: an aristocrat of the game

There is a famous story about Louis van Gaal from his time at Bayern Munich. Van Gaal had insisted from the start on two major protocols at team meals(...)

Convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff, founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. Madoff’s worldwide fraud cost his clients an estimated $17 billion in principal losses. Photo: Bloomberg
Madoff aides used ‘avalanche of lies’ to hide fraud

Five former aides of convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff used an “avalanche of lies” to help him carry out his decades-long Ponzi scheme, each w(...)

JPMorgan Chase reported a 7.3 per cent drop in quarterly profit as legal costs from a series of government settlements continued to dampen profits at the bank. Photo: Bloomberg
JPMorgan profits fall on Madoff penalties

JPMorgan Chase said profit fell 7.3 per cent in the fourth quarter after $2.6 billion in settlements linked to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme ended a (...)

JP Morgan Chase agreed to pay $2.6 billion to head off a criminal prosecution and private litigation over failures to act on its suspicions, some of which came more than a decade before Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was revealed. Photograph: Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images
JPMorgan had Madoff concerns in 1998

JP Morgan Chase bankers had concerns about Bernard Madoff for more than a decade but failed to inform the authorities, according to a damning assessme(...)

Pierce Brosnan ad for Sky Ireland
Celebrity reaches new status in advertising

Just because George Clooney does it (for Nespresso), doesn’t make it right. Celebrity-fronted ads just seem that little bit more tragic ever since (...)

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