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.

There’s a reason they’re called Masters of the Universe. The 25 top hedge fund managers took home a sweet $11.6 billion last year, even in a time of tightening credit and falling stock prices which shuttered many less-nimble funds.

The turnabout by James M. Davis, a director and chief financial officer of Stanford Financial, is a potential breakthrough for prosecutors pursuing an alleged $8-billion Ponzi scheme run by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.

While some agencies still sell a press-release and media-outreach service, Edelman has managed to outpace the competition, at least in part, through pioneering use of new media.

JPMorgan Chase, which accepted $25 billion in bailout funds, is moving ahead with plans to spend $138 million for two luxury corporate jets and the renovation of an aircraft hanger just north of New York City.

It appears that the financial fate of the sprawling Tribune media empire may hinge on the company’s rights to a 78-year-old comic book character.

Citigroup Inc., which has taken billions in taxpayers money to stay afloat, plans to spend an estimated $10 million on new offices for Chief Executive Officer Vikram Pandit and his top lieutenants.

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo revealed that American International Group Inc. gave bonuses of $1 million or more to 73 people in its Financial Products subsidiary, the unit largely responsible for the company’s meltdown.

The former president has unwound his high-profile business relationship with his friend Ronald Burkle’s Yucaipa Cos., including a politically sensitive partnership tie to Dubai.

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.

Call him the Green Prince. Britain’s heir apparent is on a 10-day tour of Latin America to promote measures to combat climate change.

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.

Veteran diplomat Chas W. Freeman Jr. has removed himself from consideration to head the National Intelligence Council as a result of criticism of his remarks about Israel and his entanglements with Saudi Arabia and China.

Is the billionaire philanthropist considering another run at the Los Angeles Times?

Annette Bongiorno, a longtime aide to accused swindler Bernard Madoff, allegedly instructed assistants to create bogus trading tickets which were used to mislead investors, according to the Wall Street Journal.

He is a law school friend of Obama’s and a successful, high-tech entrepreneur who looks to expand broadband service to rural and underserved areas, and to promote an open Internet and diverse media ownership.

Google engineers may have gotten smartphones rather than cash bonuses last year, but not so the company’s top executives.

He may have left the Baltimore Sun many years ago, but Emmy-Award winning writer David Simon still burns with righteous indignation over the injustices of urban life.