The brother of Bernard Madoff, the man behind the largest Ponzi scheme ever prosecuted in US history, is poised to plead guilty to criminal charges.

A group of investors suing in the US courts over losses they claimed were caused following the collapse of Bernard Madoff’s investment companies have got the go-ahead of the High Court to have an Irish bank employee give evidence in their action.

A group of investors who have brought proceedings in the US courts over losses they claimed were caused following the collapse of Bernard Madoff's investment companies have obtained permission of the High Court to have an Irish bank employee give evidence in their action.

THE trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff’s burned investors has reached a $7.2 billion (€5.5bn) settlement with the estate of a Florida philanthropist and businessman who had been the single-largest beneficiary of the fraud.

The trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff’s cheated investors has reached a $7.2bn settlement with the estate of a Florida philanthropist who had been the single-largest beneficiary of the fraud.

The court-appointed New York-based trustee trying to recover losses for victims of Bernard Madoff has accused HSBC of fuelling the disgraced financier’s massive fraud.

THE New York trustee appointed to recover money jailed financier Bernard Madoff stole from investors sued three entities where he said more than $30 million (€23m) in Madoff family money was tucked away.

The New York trustee appointed to recover money jailed financier Bernard Madoff stole from investors sued three entities where he said more than $30m in Madoff family money was tucked away.

A HIGH Court judge has permitted the Irish arm of European banking giant HBSC to refrain from specifying — at this stage — the capacity in which hundreds of millions of investment monies were passed on by it to companies controlled by US fraudster Bernard Madoff.

No-one in Britain will be prosecuted over the collapse of companies linked to multibillion-pound fraudster Bernard Madoff.

FRAUDSTER Bernard Madoff’s yacht, Bull, two smaller boats and a Mercedes-Benz convertible were auctioned in Florida for more than $1 million combined.

A HIGH Court judge has made rulings aimed at a cost-effective and speedy resolution of a raft of legal actions brought here after more than one billion dollars of investor monies entrusted to the Irish arm of European banking giant HSBC ended up with now jailed US billion-dollar fraudster Bernard Madoff and his companies.

US federal prosecutors said a review of most accounts held by financier Bernard Madoff’s customers when he was arrested shows that about half of the customers had not lost money because they withdrew more money than they originally invested.

A SPANISH company has asked the Commercial Court to order an Irish-registered investment fund to pay out €3.24 million it claims it was due but which it says was stopped following the discovery of Bernard Madoff’s multi-billion dollar fraud activities.

Crooked financier Bernard Madoff's accountant was arrested on fraud charges today accused of aiding the man who cheated thousands of investors out of billions of dollars.

THE US trustee handling the liquidation of the business of alleged $65 billion (e50bn) fraudster Bernard Madoff has told the High Court he has decided not to participate “at this stage” in court proceedings here.

A fund manager who lost more than $1bn (€715m) of his clients’ money to Bernard Madoff committed suicide at his Manhattan office.

The United States has been “asleep at the switch” and a financial regulatory upgrade is needed in the wake of Bernard Madoff’s alleged $49.4bn (€34.5bn) fraud scheme and the $692bn (€484bn) Wall Street bailout, president-elect Barack Obama said today.

The fraud investigation of fallen US financier Bernard Madoff took an unusual twist as the US attorney general removed himself from the criminal probe.

Fallen US financier Bernard Madoff was today forced into the humiliation of wearing an electronic tag as part of his bail conditions.

A US judge has thrown a lifeline to investors who may have been duped in one of Wall Street’s biggest alleged frauds.

Investors sent stocks lower today as anxiety over the growing list of firms affected by investment manager Bernard Madoff and the potential losses to the financial sector took centre stage on Wall Street.

The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street's biggest pyramid schemes is growing, snaring some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich and the famous, pensioners and charities.

Banking giant Santander’s clients had more than £2bn (€2.23bn) in disgraced Wall Street supremo Bernard Madoff’s investment funds, it emerged today.