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

Another swindled victim of Bernard L. Madoff has taken his life.

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.

Investigators probing Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50-billion scheme are looking at the role played by an investment firm that he co-founded with an old friend from Long Island that recruited hundreds of investors from New York, Boston and Florida.

Bernard Madoff may be negotiating a plea deal.

Pursuing efforts to jail Bernard Madoff, federal prosecutors disclosed Thursday that investigators had found about 100 signed checks to friends and relatives, totaling more than $173 million, on the day of his arrest.

Bernard L. Madoff mailed Cartier and Tiffany watches, an emerald ring and a diamond necklace worth a total of at least $1 million to relatives and friends in violation of a court order, and should be immediately jailed because he is a flight risk, prosecutors said in court papers released Wednesday.

Harry Markopolos is being called the Deep Throat of the Bernard Madoff scam. He describes himself as “the boy who cried wolf.”

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

The Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme ranks as one of the most surprising and fascinating webs we’ve ever tracked.