Investors in a Sarasota-based hedge fund could be out $350 million, and the man behind it has vanished. Managers of the fund are telling clients that their money is gone, and they do not know if any will be recovered. ...more

January 16, 2009

"The Hit Charade: Lou Pearlman, Boy Bands, and the Biggest Ponzi Scheme in U.S. History," by Tyler Gray (HarperCollins, $24.95) ...more

January 4, 2009

A list of Bernard Madoff's assets filed Wednesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will not be made public, said the regulator, which accused him in a lawsuit this month of directing a $50 billion fraud. ...more

January 1, 2009

Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick are among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by the disgraced New York money manager. ...more

December 30, 2008

Of all the words that have been used to describe the Bernard L. Madoff scandal, the most emotionally charged may be "Jewish." ...more

December 25, 2008

Bernard Madoff's amazing Ponzi scheme has put him in a league of his own, for now. He shouldn't be alone for long. ...more

December 20, 2008

The fraud investigation of Wall Street money manager Bernard L. Madoff took unusual twists Wednesday as the U.S. attorney general removed himself and the Securities and Exchange Commission looked into the relationship between Madoff's niece and a former SEC attorney who reviewed Madoff's business. ...more

December 18, 2008

Investigators pouring over Bernard Madoff's books said they have discovered the money manager falsified documents to hide massive losses to investors in a fraud case that could take months to unravel, an official helping to oversee the firm's liquidation said. ...more

December 17, 2008

Raymond James Financial Inc. said it had no history of marketing Madoff Investment Securities and no known exposure to the alleged Ponzi scheme that may cost investors billions of dollars. The St. Petersburg-based financial services company responded in a news release to a CNBC report on Friday that the brokerage had marketed funds in which Madoff was involved. ...more

December 16, 2008

It's A 'Ponzi Scheme' Regarding "Social Security: We Need It And Want It" (Other Views, Aug. 18): ...more

August 23, 2008