Bernard Madoff sentenced to maximum 150 years in prison for vast fraud scheme

NEW YORK — A federal judge rejected Bernard Madoff’s plea for leniency Monday, sentencing the 71-year-old swindler to spend the rest of his life in prison for an “extraordinarily evil” fraud that took a staggering toll on thousands of victims.

Gains in commodities lift energy, industrial shares; Investors await week’s key data

NEW YORK — A jump in oil prices sent investors rushing to put money into the stock market in the final days of the second quarter.

Victims urge stiff term for Madoff at convicted swindler’s sentencing in NYC

NEW YORK — Bernard Madoff’s fraud victims are urging a stiff sentence for the mastermind of a multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.

Wall Street begins holiday-shortened week on cautious note, investors await week’s key data

NEW YORK — Investors are beginning a holiday-shortened week on a cautious note.

US stock futures point to slightly higher open as investors await the week’s key economic data

NEW YORK — Investors are looking to start a holiday-shortened week on a positive note.

US prosecutors propose 150-year-jail term for Ponzi king Madoff

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors in the United States recommended Friday that Ponzi king Bernard L. Madoff be sentenced to 150 years in prison for defrauding the public of 65 billion dollars.

NY prosecutors: Judge orders disgraced financier Bernard Madoff to forfeit over $170 billion

NEW YORK — A federal judge has ordered disgraced financier Bernard Madoff to forfeit over $170 billion.

Federal judge in NY says complexity of fraud in Madoff case will delay restitution order

NEW YORK — Financier Bernard Madoff will not be ordered to pay restitution at his sentencing next week, a judge said Wednesday, citing the complexity of the multibillion-dollar fraud.

SEC weighing new requirements, exams for investment funds that hold client money

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators on Thursday proposed requiring most investment advisers to submit to surprise exams by outside auditors, a move aimed at patching gaps that allowed Bernard Madoff to deceive investors about their funds’ health.

Bernie Madoff’s kin also spent like crazy and swindled investors

NEW YORK - Ponzie king Bernie Madoff’s family crisscrossed the globe, plucking up expensive trinkets and swindled investors with the tab, new court papers reveal.

Madoff says sorry for 47bn pounds swindle

LONDON - Bernard Madoff apologised for committing the largest investor fraud ever, amounting to as much as 47 billion pounds, while being sent behind the bars.

Madoff jailed, pleads guilty to massive fraud in court

WASHINGTON - Disgraced financier Bernard Madoff will go to jail after admitting in court Thursday to a $50-billion fraud that entwined hundreds of investors around the world and has made him the poster-child of Wall Street greed in the current financial crisis.

Yet another finance scandal: Stanford Bank took $8 bn

MEXICO CITY/NEW YORK - Latin American countries have moved to stem losses from another US finance scandal, this time centred on Texas billionaire Robert Allen Stanford and his Antigua-based bank. Stanford is best-known in India as the big cricket moghul of the West Indies.

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