PYRAMID crook mastermind Bernard Madoff’s lawyer yesterday suggested a 12-year sentence would be a “fair” punishment for his multi-billion dollar con.

Pyramid crook mastermind Bernard Madoff’s lawyer today suggested that a 12-year sentence would be a “fair” punishment for his multi-billion pound con.

CALLING him a “murderer” and a “monster”, more than 100 victims of Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff have asked the judge, who will sentence him on June 29 for the maximum sentence.

Bernard Madoff’s lawyers are appealing a judge’s decision to revoke his €7.5m bail and send him to jail to await sentencing.

Crooked financier Bernard Madoff faces the prospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars after pleading guilty to a $50bn (€38bn)-plus investment fraud today.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life behind bars today after admitting a massive investment fraud.

Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff is expected to plead guilty to 11 charges of fraud carrying a maximum sentence of 150 years, his lawyer said.

A Texan oil executive has been jailed for two years for approving the payment of millions of dollars in bribes to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq regime so he could secure large oil shipments through the United Nations’ oil for food programme.

A New York judge has locked up a "despicable" fraudster who faked his own death in the September 11 attacks to avoid a relatively minor passport charge.

Penthouse magazine has settled a lawsuit over its use of topless pictures it said were of Anna Kournikova.

Penthouse magazine has apologised for misidentifying topless pictures of the daughter-in-law of fashion designer Luciano Benetton as those of Anna Kournikova.