Bernard Madoff

'Blue Jasmine' trailer: Yo, Andrew Dice Clay in a Woody Allen film?

2013-06-07 11:40:00

The trailer for Woody Allen's� "Blue Jasmine" is out, providing a first peek at one of the summer's most counterintuitive bits of casting -- potty-mouthed comic Andrew Dice Clay in a dramatic role opposite Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins and...

Letters: Adding insult to Matt Kemp's injury

2013-05-31 17:18:00

It's hard to believe that Matt Kemp has made the Dodgers' $160-million investment disappear quicker than Bernie Madoff ever could have. Herb Schoenberg Tarzana :: I have never heard of a team being worse off if a guy that's hitting .251 with two...

Letters: Enron's Skilling and his jail cell

2013-05-22 00:00:00

Re "Skilling doesn't deserve a break," Column, May 19 Jeff Skilling, the chief executive of Enron when it defrauded investors before its collapse in 2001, still believes he has the power to extort or bribe his way out of jail. It scares me to think that...

Elie Wiesel, history's witness

2013-04-23 16:43:00

It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...

Madoff investors cannot sue SEC, federal appeals court says

2013-04-10 09:53:00

Investors who lost big when Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme unraveled cannot sue federal regulators, despite the government’s “regrettable inaction,” a federal appeals court ruled. Madoff victims had sued, arguing that the...

Bernard Madoff urges investigators to keep pursuing big banks

2013-02-26 06:00:00

Imprisoned money manager Bernard Madoff is encouraging those investigating his massive Ponzi scheme to keep going after banks he alleges were complicit in the fraud. Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence for defrauding investors out of billions...

Letters: Are all liars created equal?

2013-01-23 00:00:00

Re "Like him, we are all liars," Opinion, Jan. 19 Not all lies are of the same breadth, depth and impact. Size does matter. By his own admission, Lance Armstrong is a liar. But lying only matters if you get caught — right, Bernie Madoff? Wall...

Previewing 2013's books [Google+ Hangout]

2013-01-07 10:09:00

Join book critic David L. Ulin and me for a video chat about the books we're looking forward to in 2013. We'll be talking live Tuesday at 10 a.m. In part, the conversation will preview my article in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, which looks at the hot...

The Bernard Madoff book collection: Rick Moody, Fyodor Dostoevsky

2013-01-05 12:36:00

How does an author of seriously literary fiction discover one of his books was owned by Bernie Madoff, the investor who defrauded his clients of billions of dollars? He sees it listed in an auction on EBay. That's how Rick Moody came to know that Madoff's...

Pre-inaugural books on civics for history geeks

2013-01-07 14:09:00

You’re not necessarily a history geek if you shed a tear during Steven Spielberg’s excellent biopic “Lincoln,” which relates the struggle to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and forever outlaw slavery. However, you are...

Durkee attorney challenges number of fraud victims listed by feds

2012-11-28 09:24:24

Peter Madoff pleads guilty, faces 10 years in prison

2012-06-29 11:02:00

Bernard Madoff's younger brother Peter pleaded� guilty in federal court in Manhattan, the first of the swindler's kin to face charges in history's largest Ponzi scheme. Peter Madoff, who for years worked as the chief compliance officer and senior...

Boxes of Bernard Madoff's books sold at auction.

2013-01-05 11:53:00

Dubbed the second coming of Bernie Madoff, Texas billionaire financier R. Allen Stanford operated a $7-billion scheme that conned thousands of investors worldwide for two decades.

2012-10-22 14:00:27

Disgraced money manager and former Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff was convicted in June 2009 of perpetrating the largest financial fraud in the nation's history.

2012-10-22 13:59:25