These are hard times for J. Ezra Merkin. 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 ...

J. Ezra Merkin was accused of securities fraud and other state charges for falsely leading investors to believe he managed their money as he instead funneled the funds to Madoff with little oversight.

NEW YORK -- J. 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 control of his funds to ...

Last fall, the celebrated money manager J. Ezra Merkin told a room full of value investors that he was "in the business of buying broken promises." Now, some clients are accusing him of selling ...

State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged J. Ezra Merkin today with civil fraud, alleging that he “betrayed” hundreds of investors by funneling a staggering $2.4 billion of clients’ money ...

By Rick Rojas Irving L. Picard, who represents victims of Bernard Madoff’s huge Ponzi scheme, says in a filing that J. Ezra Merkin “willfully blinded” himself to signs of fraud. By Peter ...

Former money manager J. Ezra Merkin has agreed to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars to duped investors in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. In a settlement announced Monday by New York ...

Ezra Merkin, the founder of Bernie’s second-largest feeder fund, Ascot Partners, with civil fraud. The complaint, filed in the New York Supreme Court, is typically dramatic, in the Cuomoian style.

Prominent money manager J. Ezra Merkin was slapped with civil fraud charges yesterday for funneling $2.4 billion worth of investor money into Bernard Madoff’s mega-Ponzi scheme. State Attorney ...

J. Ezra Merkin, the New York financier felled by the Madoff scandal, is selling a collection of Mark Rothko paintings and Alberto Giacometti sculptures to a mystery buyer for $310 million ...

Money manager and Bernie Madoff associate J. Ezra Merkin will pay $410 million to compensate investors after losing more than $1.2 billion of their money to Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. New York Atty.

J. Ezra Merkin Agrees to $410 Million Madoff SettlementThe ex–money manager’s funds funneled at least $2 billion to Madoff. Madoff Bankruptcy Trustee Drops One Claim Against Merkin ...