Scam Of The Century - The Bernard Madoff Story

A $95 million payment to Societe Generale shortly before Allen Stanford's firm collapsed is about to take center stage at the Texas financier's criminal trial, CNBC has learned.

Investors in "feeder funds" who lost money with Bernard Madoff do not qualify as customers of the now-imprisoned swindler, a federal judge ruled.

Imprisoned swindler Bernard Madoff's former firm's controller is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges under a cooperation agreement with the government, federal prosecutors said on Thursday.

The trustee liquidating convicted fraudster Bernard Madoff's companies is suing Credit Suisse for $375 million, money which he said was transferred to the bank but belongs to the estate of Madoff's collapsed businesses.

There’s a new theory floating around Wall Street about the money missing from customer accounts at MF Global: it was Madoff-ed.

For those he ensnared, the Madoff story drags on. It began three years ago today, when F.B.I. agents arrested a man who, to the world, was a wizard of Wall Street, but he soon confessed to a Ponzi scheme, the New York Times reports.

Add health care fraud to ponzi schemes and insider trading at the top of the list of wrongdoing in the financial world.