Chalk up another tragic ending connected to Bernard Madoff’s con - and another door likely nailed shut for investigators.

Indications are that the gay rights movement is on the threshold of major gains.

Muckety’s list of 50 of the most influential gay movers and shakers in the country.

Give Rick Scott this much: He may have reinvented himself shamelessly, but he’s done it in full public view.

A scion of one of the nation’s bluest, blue-blood families has been selected to sell off Bernard Madoff’s Upper Eastside penthouse.

At what point does a client become so radioactive that no amount of money warrants continuing the relationship?

John H. Durham, appointed last week to investigate allegations of CIA abuse of detainees, is no one’s shill.

Ruth Madoff may never be prosecuted in connection with her husband’s decades-long Ponzi scheme, but her days living “a life of splendor” could be over.

Robert S. Bennett is investigating former Washington Mayor Marion Barry on possible ethical violations.

John Harris, a former chief of staff to ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking part in a scheme to sell or trade President Barack Obama’s Senate seat, according to the Associated Press.

A man who was one of former Senator John Edwards’s closest aides has a deal to write a tell-all book about Edwards’ affair with Rielle Hunter.

The latest revelations about Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s campaign organization funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to his wife come at a delicate time for the veteran congressman.

J. Ezra Merkin, the financier who was a major feeder to Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, stepped down Wednesday night as an officer of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, the New York Times reports. He declined a nomination to be chairman.

When President Obama signs the much-heralded credit card reform bill, he will be delivering a major coup for the National Rifle Association.

Sen. Max Baucus has emerged as an unlikely kingpin.

The court-appointed trustee of Bernard Madoff’s defunct firm is going after the millionaire middlemen who acted as witting or unwitting accomplices to Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Financier and philanthropist J. Ezra Merkin assented Tuesday to step down as manager of his hedge funds and to place them into receivership.

Hillary Rodham Clinton may have reinvented herself (again) as Secretary of State, but she hasn’t exactly started with a blank slate.

Former U.S. Surgeon General Antonia Novello has been charged with forcing New York State employees to work overtime to handle her personal chores when she was state health chief.

Billionaire financier F. Warren Hellman, who already underwrites an annual music festival and a free health clinic in San Francisco, has pledged to develop a new model for community journalism.