American fraudster Bernie Madoff commanded respect from staff and was “ironically” anxious that his “prestige and reputation” should be protected, a High Court judge in London said today.

That is the message that prosecutors will pound home today as five of Bernard Madoff’s long-time employees go on trial accused of enabling his $65bn Ponzi scheme.

The brother of imprisoned financier Bernard Madoff was sentenced to 10 years in prison for crimes committed in the shadow of his notorious sibling by a judge who said she disbelieved his claims that he did not know about the epic fraud.

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.

The brother of Ponzi scheme king Bernard Madoff will plead guilty tomorrow to conspiracy and falsifying records, admitting his role in the multibillion-dollar fraud that destroyed the savings of thousands of investors, US prosecutors told a judge.

Texas tycoon Allen Stanford spent more than 20 years charming investors, who handed him billions of dollars they had spent their lives accumulating through hard work and saving.

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 inspector general for the Securities and Exchange Commission is leaving his position after four years, during which he put the US government agency under harsh scrutiny and exposed serious lapses in detecting or pursuing major fraud schemes.

HSBC Holdings Plc has amended its settlement with investors in an Irish fund who lost their money in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme after its original offer was rejected by a US judge in September.

The wife of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff says the couple tried to kill themselves after he admitted stealing billions of dollars in the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

John Malkovich found losing his fortune "freeing".

Kevin Bacon doesn't understand why people want a lot of money.

Former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn moved from a temporary space in a high-rise to a plush, four-bedroom brick townhouse in New York today, where he will remain under house arrest as he awaits trial for attempted rape.

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from jail to house arrest in a landmark apartment building near New York's ground zero after the luxury apartment where he had arranged to stay fell through because the neighbours objected to the media frenzy.

A JUDGE agreed yesterday to free former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn from a New York City jail on the condition he post $1 million (almost €700,00) in bail and remain under house arrest, under the watch of armed guards, at a private apartment in Manhattan.

CROOKED financier Bernard Madoff’s exclusive wine cellar is to be sold off to help pay his huge fraud debts.

Crooked financier Bernard Madoff’s exclusive wine cellar is to be sold off to help pay his massive fraud debts.

Bernard Madoff, the banker jailed for American's largest Ponzi-style fraud scheme, claims some of his victims only had themselves to blame.

Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff calls new regulatory reform enacted after the recent national financial crises “a joke” and describes the US federal government as a Ponzi scheme.

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.

IMPRISONED financier Bernard Madoff won’t seek to attend his son’s funeral out of consideration for the privacy of his son’s wife and four children, his lawyer said.

The eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff was found hanged in his Manhattan apartment on the second anniversary of the day his father was arrested in the worst investment fraud in American history.

The son of jailed financier Bernard Madoff has been found dead in New York City of an apparent suicide, a law enforcement official has said.

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 trustee working to recover money for victims fleeced by disgraced former Nasdaq chief Bernard Madoff says he has filed 40 lawsuits against his relatives and former employees.

THOUSANDS of personal items belonging to jailed financier Bernard Madoff are being sent for auction to compensate his victims.

PRIVATE equity and hedge funds will have access to all 27 EU countries with a single registration and be subject to EU-wide regulation following an agreement by finance ministers.

Paris: If Jerome Kerviel is convicted next week of causing Societe Generale’s €4.9 billion loss, he won’t face the kind of sentences given to financial felons like Bernard Madoff (150 years) or even Nick Leeson (six-and-a-half years).

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.

Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel went on trial in Paris today accused of one of history’s biggest bank frauds.

Jerome Kerviel, the French trader accused of gambling away billions of his bank’s money, was due to face trial today.

ROGUE financial trader Jerome Kerviel goes on trial in Paris today accused of risking billions of his bank’s money in trades that led to massive losses.

New York: Actor John Malkovich is seeking to recover $2.3 million (€1.69m) from an account he had with the securities firm of Bernard Madoff, who conducted the biggest Ponzi scheme in US history.

Actor John Malkovich’s lawyers have complained to a New York judge overseeing the bankruptcy of jailed financier Bernard Madoff that he will get only $670,000 dollars of his $2.2m claim.

One of Bernard Madoff’s daughters-in-law said she and her children should not have to bear the burden of his name.

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.

Fraudster Bernard Madoff’s brother, sons and niece, who were accused in a lawsuit of using the family finance business like a “piggy bank”, have agreed to an asset freeze, according to a court document.

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

A lawyer for the brother of fraudster Bernard Madoff said his client was told he is a “subject” of criminal investigators probing the multibillion-dollar fraud.

It has been reported that the disgraced Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff has been assaulted in prison.