J. Ezra Merkin, the scion of a prominent family known for its generous support of Modern Orthodoxy, has emerged as a key link between a constellation of Orthodox institutions and Bernard Madoff, the ...

Almost a decade after Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme collapsed, the trustee unwinding his fraud struck another settlement with one of the con man’s earliest investors -- a $280 million deal with the ...

NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters) - A federal judge said thetrustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's firm may pursue nearly allof his lawsuit to recoup hundreds of millions of dollarsstemming from New York money ...

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 Attorney ...

MANHATTAN (CN) – Financier J. Ezra Merkin charged clients $470 million to “manage” their money, though he simply turned it over to Bernard Madoff and lost $2.4 billion of it, New ...

Citing the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit’s recent en banc decision in Garcia v. Google (IP Update, Vol. 18, No. 6), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a summary ...

*UPDATE: Victor Teicher, the Merkin advisor described in the NYT story quoted below, disputes the NYT's characterization of these events. Full statement below. EARLIER: Hard to know where to start: ...

J. Erzra Merkin, a major “feeder fund” to Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scam, was charged today with fraud and deception by New York State Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo. The civil lawsuit filed ...

Hieronymus Merkin (Anthony Newley) has recently turned forty, and is in the midst of preparing a movie that details his life's history and development. Portraying himself as a marionette being ...