Madoff ‘making desk, door nameplates in jail’

October 14th, 2009 NORTH CAROLINA - Jailed Ponzi king Bernard Madoff was involved in a prison scuffle with a fellow inmate in North Carolina federal prison following a debate over stock market, and reportedly came out victorious. According to reports, Madoff and the other inmate had a heated debate over the stock market, which turned sour when the former pushed Madoff.

September 2nd, 2009 NEW YORK - A court-appointed trustee overseeing the Madoff case is poised to file civil complaints against jailed Ponzi King Bernie Madoff's two sons Mark and Andrew - who ran their father's trading division - and Peter Madoff, Bernie's brother and company's chief compliance officer. Trustee Irving Picard will seek in excess of 50 million dollars, including at least 30 million dollars in loans to the sons.

August 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - Jailed Ponzi King Bernie Madoff had flings with numerous secretaries that frequently ended with hush-hush settlements, according to Jerry Oppenheimer's new book, "Madoff With the Money." The New York Post quotes a female veteran Madoff employee telling Oppenheimer that "He had affairs in the office. There were two women I know of.

August 14th, 2009 NEW YORK - The chief financial officer of the Hadassah, a Jewish volunteer organization, is said to have had a rip roaring affair with New York Ponzi King Bernard L. Madoff in the late 1990s, which in turn helped him to siphon off millions of dollars from its members.

August 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - Jailed Ponzi king Bernard Madoff had young inexperienced government regulators so wowed at his ritzy Midtown headquarters that they asked about job openings and dropped off resumes, while missing clear evidence he was running a massive illegal racket, a new book has claimed. Madoff firm secretary Elaine Solomon told author Andrew Kirtzman for his book, "Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff," "No wonder they never found anything." In the book out today, Solomon, speaking out for the first time since Madoff's epic downfall last winter after years of operating his multibillion-dollar scam, was quoted by the New York Post as saying that the arch-fraudster got anxious every time investigators from the Securities and Exchange Commission came knocking at his Third Avenue office in the Lipstick Building.

July 29th, 2009 LONDON - Ponzi king Bernard Madoff, in his first interview since entering prison, has expressed surprise that Wall Street's biggest investment fraud was not uncovered sooner. Madoff, 71, who was sentenced to 150 years in prison for his 65 billion dollar fraud, expressed remorse and talked candidly to two lawyers who are suing him on behalf of the investors.

July 24th, 2009 NEW YORK - Multi-billion dollar fraudster Bernard Madoff was a devious liar and cheat since the day he was born, reveals a new book. "Bernie showed his con-man colours as early as high school, when he held an English class enthralled with an oral book report-one that he made up on the spot out of whole cloth," the New York Post quoted Jerry Oppenheimer, author of book "Madoff With the Money," as saying.

July 20th, 2009 NORTH CAROLINA - Ponzi king Bernard Madoff, who has been convicted of committing a fraud of 60 billion dollars, is in danger of being beaten up by fellow inmates at a North Carolina federal prison, where he is currently imprisoned. Reportedly, fellow inmates at the federal prison were discussing beating Madoff to boost their jailhouse reputations.

July 15th, 2009 NEW YORK - Wall Street's biggest fraudster Bernard Madoff will serve his jail term along with an Israeli spy and an Islamic terrorist at a North Carolina prison, where he was transferred on Monday after the US Bureau of Prisons rejected his request to spend the rest of his life at the Otisville Correctional Institute, an easygoing prison. Now Prisoner No 61727-054, Madoff, 71, is serving his 150-year sentence for running a 65 billion dollar ponzi scheme at the Butner Federal Correctional Complex, 480 miles from New York, where Madoff's wife and two sons.

July 13th, 2009 NEW YORK - Want to vent out your anger on Bernard Madoff personally? Well, you can at least write a mail to the fraudster via MadoffMail.com. The site is offering people a chance to send emails that will be eventually delivered to the scammer in prison.

July 10th, 2009 NEW YORK - A lawyer representing incarcerated Ponzi king Bernie Madoff has said that his client will not appeal against the 150-year prison term handed down by Manhattan Federal Judge Denny Chin. Bernie Madoff, 71, is presently lodged in the Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, and is awaiting a transfer to a prison outside the city, reports the New York Daily News.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - Bernard Madoff has hired a veteran prison consultant to help him to find the best possible jail in which to serve his 150-year sentence for Wall Street's biggest fraud. After his sentencing this week Madoff, now Prisoner No 1727-054, met Herb Hoelter, of the National Centre for Institutions and Alternatives, whose previous clients include the jailed Sotheby's chairman Alfred Taubman and the financiers Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky.

June 27th, 2009 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.

June 24th, 2009 LONDON - Bernard Madoff's lawyer has told a judge that 12 years in jail would be a fair punishment for the Ponzi king who swindled billions of investors' money in one of history's biggest frauds. Madoff, who pled guilty to an 11-count criminal complaint, admitting to defrauding thousands of investors, faces a possible 150 years in prison and up to 170 billion dollars in restitution.

June 7th, 2009 LONDON - Ponzi king Bernie Madoff, who has been accused of committing a fraud of 60 billion dollars, is reported to have ordered his London office to sell its 165 million dollar portfolio of UK gilts only a month before he confessed to the FBI that his business was a "big lie". According to The Independent, directors of his London office followed Madoff's instructions, transferring the sale proceeds to his New York office.