Jeffry M. Picower died a very rich man last month in part because of returns on his investments with Ponzi scheme operator Bernard L. Madoff.

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.

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.

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

The SEC filed suit Monday against a New York company and four individuals, accusing them of feeding billions to Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The wife of accused swindler Bernard Madoff argues that their $7 million Manhattan penthouse and an additional $62 million in assets belong to her.

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.