Topic: J. Ezra Merkin

Merkin funds win dismissal of Madoff lawsuits

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three hedge funds run by New York financier and philanthropist Ezra Merkin won dismissal of civil lawsuits accusing them of being part of swindler Bernard Madoff's massive fraud.In an order dated Friday and made public on Monday ...

Madoff investors win $12.74 mln in Merkin case

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors in Gabriel Capital LP, a so-called feeder fund that funneled money to imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff, were awarded $12.74 million by a panel of three arbitrators, court records show.The award to two New Jersey investment funds ...
Last month, it was revealed that Bernard L .Madoff made off with money Merkin had invested in his Ponzi scheme. On Friday, Merkin lost his job as chairman of GMAC.. Last month, Merkin had a class-action lawsuit brought against him by investors ...
J. Ezra Merkin, who invested clients' money in Madoff scheme, quits NYC synagogue postJ. Ezra Merkin, the financier who invested billions of dollars of his clients' money with Bernard Madoff, has resigned as an officer of a wealthy New York City synagogue ...
Merkin agrees to give up control of funds that funneled $2.4B to Madoff's Ponzi schemeJ. Ezra Merkin, the hedge fund manager who invested billions of dollars of his clients' money with Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff, has agreed to relinquish ...

Receivers to control 3 Madoff-linked Merkin funds

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Receivers would take control of three hedge funds run by prominent money manager Ezra Merkin and linked to the Madoff fraud, lawyers for New York's top legal officer and Merkin said on Tuesday.The lawyers said in court ...
THE BIG FOUR ACCOUNTING FIRMS ARE USED to embarrassing headlines about their purported misdeeds. BDO Seidman, the seventh-largest U.S. auditor in terms of net revenue, has been linked to disgraced financier J. Ezra Merkin and so, indirectly, to the ubiquitous Bernard ...
NY Trustee in Madoff scandal sues hedge fund manager for more than $500 millionThe trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff's assets sued a prominent hedge fund manager for more than $500 million on Thursday, claiming he was aware the disgraced ...
NY court papers say Merkin was warned about Madoff years before losing investors' millionsA former employee of hedge fund manager J. Ezra Merkin claims Merkin was warned about Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff years before losing tens of millions of dollars of ...
Hedge fund founder Ezra Merkin, charged by New York's top legal officer with secretly placing $2.4 billion of client funds with swindler Bernard Madoff, told lawyers he did due diligence of Madoff, according to court documents released on Friday. In ...