"How would you compare the fraud you're alleging to the Madoff Ponzi scheme," Trump's fraud-trial judge asked Thursday.

After decades of marriage, Bernie was arrested in 2008 for defrauding investors and running the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time Ruth stayed with him following his sentencing and has lived a quiet ...

Bernie Madoff built what became one of history’s most notorious Ponzi schemes, taking money from more than 40,000 people, including names such as Steven Spielberg, Kevin Bacon and Larry King. Despite ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kevin Bacon is looking on the bright side. The "Footloose" star said in a new interview that despite losing a fortune in Bernie ...

You probably haven't heard Bernie Madoff's name in awhile, but that doesn't mean the infamous fraudster's story is over, or the pain he inflicted. Irving Picard, an 83-old court-appointed trustee, ...

Bacon told Esquire that he and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, were "certainly angry" over the ordeal. The FBI called Madoff's operation "history's biggest Ponzi scheme." Actor Kevin Bacon says he isn't ...

Jess Ekstrom will never forget waking up one morning in December of 2008 to hear her father say the family had lost most of their life savings. Later that day, Ekstrom, then a high school senior, ...

The final payments to victims of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme are underway, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). In March 2009, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 felonies that authorities at the ...

There is a way that one expects visits with jailed criminals to go: typically, there's guilt, contrition, the accepting of responsibility. Not so with Bernie Madoff, serving 150 years, the executor of ...

Bernie Madoff didn't just affect investors when his historic Ponzi scheme was exposed — his family, including his wife Ruth Madoff, was severely impacted as well. According to Reuters, prosecutors ...

Ruth Madoff married Bernie Madoff when she was 18 and claimed to be shocked when he was arrested for fraud in 2008 Bernie Madoff and his wife Ruth Madoff met when they were teenagers in high school ...