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

If Irving H. Picard has his way, Jeffry Picower may no longer be among the super rich.

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

After telling a federal judge that he had no excuse for his actions, Bernard Madoff was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison.

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.

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.

Jewish philanthropist Stanley Chais was one of Bernard Madoff’s earliest investors, steering tens of millions of dollars of other people’s money to the convicted swindler.

Linda Chatman Thomsen, who took heat for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s failure to detect Bernard L. Madoff’s ongoing fraud, is returning to private practice with her former law firm.

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.

The younger brother and business partner of convicted felon Bernard Madoff is under increasing scrutiny from investigators, as well as from victims of the $65 billion fraud.

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.

It was Bernard Madoff’s financial meltdown that helped implicate R. Allen Stanford, the flamboyant Texas billionaire accused of defrauding investors of $8 billion.

The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday accused R. Allen Stanford and three of his companies with “orchestrating a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme.”

The Bag Lady may get to keep her expensive jewelry and her West Palm Beach cottage after all.

The wife of accused Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff pulled millions out of a brokerage account only days before her husband was charged with securities fraud - including $10 million on the eve of his arrest, Massachusetts’ top securities regulator said Wednesday.

Bernard Madoff and the Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed to a partial settlement of civil suit accusing Madoff of defrauding investors.

We’ve departed today from our tradition of drawing a Muckety map to accompany each story, choosing to instead show a Google map illustrating the geographic reach of the Bernard Madoff debacle.

With the emergence of a hero yesterday on Capitol Hill, casting of Bernie Madoff the Movie would seem to be complete.

A bad year for Wall Street and a bad year for Bernard L. Madoff is turning out to be a bad year for the Harlem Children’s Zone, a successful New York City education reform project.