Real-estate transactions in the metaverse are reaching record highs. The WSJ spoke with companies investing in digital real estate to unders...

Ike Sorkin, lawyer to both Bernie Madoff and Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street), discusses their criminal financial schemes and how regula...

Bernie Madoff died on 14 April 2021 aged 82. He was in the 12th year of his 150 year prison sentence after committing the biggest Ponzi frau...

From FIN alternative – “Texan Allen Stanford first appeared on the radars of financial regulators in 1997. Julie Preuitt, then a branch c...

From Market Minder “Ascot Partners. Sound familiar? No? You’re not alone. Let’s try again. Familiar with Bernard Madoff? I’m betting y...

One of the defendants in Madoff case Italian bank UniCredit SpA has filed a lawsuit against Irving Picard, a trustee liquidating Bernard Mad...

Two former employees of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff have been arrested by the FBI in relation to his massive Ponzi scheme, according ...

Sandra Venetis, an investment adviser from New Jersey, has been accused of leading a Ponzi scheme which saw $11 million stolen from clients....

Irving Picard, court-appointed trustee for the victims of Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, is to take legal action against investors who benef...

It is reported that Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee started to gather money from 43 new defendants to pay the victims of Bernard ...

Three men accused of running the UK's largest-ever Ponzi scheme have been ordered to pay £115 million to the Financial Services Authorit...

Join us in JOHANNESBURG, South Africa on 2 & 3 August 2010 for our 2-day training course “RISK MANAGEMENT - FOCUS ON FRAUD” Fraud is...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Jerome O’Hara and George Perez of provideing the technical support necessary to produce f...

Have risk managers really been doing their jobs properly? According to many they certainly have not. I came across this interesting item on ...

A major area of operations risk is in the areas of fraud. From Johannesburg comes the news that South Africa is currently in the midst of wh...

South Africa has its own Ponzi scheme too. A 2 billion rand (USD 257 million) scam that has ensnared many investors, including some well kno...

An interesting insight from Alan Ellis, a lawyer specializing in federal sentencing and Bureau of Prison matters and the author of the “Fede...

So sentence has finally been passed. 150 years is a pretty hefty stretch, not that it is going to really help Bernard Madoff's thousands...