Bernard Madoff

...while he audited Madoff's financial records from 1991 to 2008. "In what was the biggest mistake of my life; I put my trust with Bernard Madoff," Friehling told Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. The charges carry a potential prison term of up...

In this article: Bernard L. Madoff, Johnson & Johnson, India, Inflation, Royal Bank of Scotland Group, Alvin K. Hellerstein, New York Mercantile Exchange, and International Monetary Fund

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tax relief for thousands of small, indirect investors in Bernard Madoff's swindle and other fraudulent schemes appears close to Senate adoption as part of a broader bill to extend unemployment benefits. An amendment by...

In this article: Tax, Unemployment, Internal Revenue Service, Nasdaq, Charles Schumer, Hollywood, Washington, and North Carolina

Friehling has pleaded guilty to four charges The long-term accountant of disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. David Friehling, 49, has admitted four charges in total, but at the same time denied any...

In this article: Frank DiPascali, Securities and Exchange Commission, US, and Manhattan

...2008. The plea was part of a cooperation deal with prosecutors. "In what was the biggest mistake of my life, I put my trust with Bernard Madoff," Friehling told Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. Before he explained his crimes to the judge, he...

In this article: Alvin K. Hellerstein, SEC, Frank DiPascali, FBI, and New City, N.Y.

In his own telling, Bernard Madoff was a version of the serial killer who leaves notes saying, "Stop me before I kill again." In Madoff's case, he was waiting for the Securities and Exchange Commission to ask him how he took in billions of...

In this article: SEC, God, Wall Street, Ideology, Cole Porter, and Ronald Reagan

NOBODY was more surprised that the US Securities and Exchange Commission did not discover Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme years ago than Madoff himself. After all, it would have been pretty simple, he said in a transcript of a prison...

In this article: SEC, Wall Street, and New York Times

...on agency's probes By Jonathan Stempel and Rachelle Younglai U.S. securities investigators raised repeated concern over how Bernard Madoff could be running an honest business, but never followed through on the many red flags they...

In this article: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt, and E mail

WASHINGTON (AP) - As Bernard Madoff sat in jail a few months after pleading guilty to fraud, he sounded faintly boastful. The only problem with officials at the Securities and Exchange Commission's Washington headquarters, he said, is that...

In this article: SEC, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Frank DiPascali, Washington, New York, and Nasdaq

WASHINGTON -- Bernard Madoff was apparently convinced that it never even occurred to Securities and Exchange Commission staff he was running a Ponzi scheme, despite the agency's numerous probes of his business. A document released Friday...

In this article: SEC, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Frank DiPascali, Washington, New York, and Nasdaq

By Rachelle Younglai Bernard Madoff believed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission employees were too dazzled by his stature on Wall Street to properly probe his operations and uncover his massive fraud, documents released on Friday...

In this article: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Arthur Levitt, Elisse Walter, Finra, and William Donaldson