It looks like court-appointed Madoff trustee Irving Picard is going after the whole shebang: Not just Bernard Madoff’s Manhattan penthouse and home in the Hamptons, but also a good chunk of the wealth accumulated by family members.

The financier, philanthropist and former GMAC chairman who steered more than $2 billion of investors’ money into Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme was sued Monday by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

British investigators said Friday that Ruth Madoff got a $2 million payment from the London division of her husband’s securities firm just weeks before he was arrested for securities fraud.

Authorities plan to go after more than $100 million in real estate, cash, art, autos, boats and other property owned by Ruth Madoff and her husband Bernard Madoff, who pleaded guilty last week to running the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

Disgraced Wall Street trader Bernard Madoff was sent to jail Thursday after pleading guilty to all 11 charges against him, and expressing shame and sorrow for bilking investors of nearly $65 billion.

Barring a change of heart, Bernard L. Madoff will plead guilty tomorrow to running a massive Ponzi scheme for at least a quarter century that defrauded thousands of people in virtually every corner of the globe.

Relatives of New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg are pursuing a novel approach to try to recover millions they lost in Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion Ponzi scheme. They’re suing his brother.

After spending half a lifetime being eclipsed by his famous father, J. Ezra Merkin is getting his 15 minutes of fame.

Could one man operate an alleged $50-billion Ponzi scheme without help from anyone else?

The hedge fund executive who committed suicide in his 22nd-floor office on Madison Avenue was a blue-blood French aristocrat and champion yachtsman entrusted with the money of some of Europe’s wealthiest families.

Mary L. Schapiro, Barack Obama’s pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, is being described as the right person to help restore the commission’s battered reputation.

Bernard L. Madoff, the founder of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities and a former NASDAQ governor, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with multi-billion-dollar criminal securities fraud.