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House Sets Hearing to Assess Madoff Ponzi, Reform. http://is.gd/eiZ0 # Today is the last day that Merrill Lynch & Co will be traded on the NYSE, due to its acquisition by Bank of America. http://is.gd/eiS9 # Vote: Will Madoff Disclose Assets Today or Assert Fifth Amendment? http://is.gd/egO6 #
The House Committee on Financial Services has scheduled a Full Committee Meeting for Monday, January 5, 2009, at 2:00 p.m., to hear testimony on “Assessing the Madoff Ponzi and the Need for Regulatory Reform.” Witnesses will reportedly include H. David Kotz, SEC Inspector General; Stephen P. Harbeck, President, SIPC; Harry Markopolos, who tried for years […]
Jacob Frenkel, formerly an SEC Enforcement attorney and federal prosecutor (not to mention a current member of the Securities Docket Securities Litigation and Enforcement group), was interviewed at length this morning in this video from CNBC. In it, Frenkel discusses the looming deadline for Bernard Madoff to disclose his assets to the SEC, and what […]
Today, New Year’s Eve, is the deadline imposed by Judge Louis Stanton for Bernard Madoff to produce to the SEC a complete written account of all his assets held for his “direct or indirect benefit,” with descriptions of “the source, amount, disposition and current location of each.” Although Madoff’s own lawyers have publicly stated that […]
On January 14, NERA Economic Consulting is sponsoring a Securities Docket webcast that will address the key legal and economic questions arising from Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion scheme. Please join panelists Gerald Silk of Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossman LLP; Brad Freidman of Milberg LLP; and Dr. Fred Dunbar of NERA Economic Consulting as they address these issues in a free, one-hour webcast.