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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

*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 ...

Ezra Merkin defrauded charities, non-profits says New York AG Andrew Cuomo. April 6, 2009— -- Ezra Merkin, the former chairman of automaker GM's finance arm, and the founder of the $5 billion ...