Bernie Madoff action figure unveiled at the Toy Fair in New York
The Bernie "Made Off With My Money" Madoff action figure, designed by Graeme Warring, president of Modelworks, is shown at the 2009 Toy Fair held at the Jacob Javits Center on February 18, 2009 in New York City. The caricature doll resembles the disgraced financier and it comes with a hammer intended to be used to smash the figurine. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)
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NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- HBO has acquired an option on a new book about Bernie Madoff and will roll it into a movie project about the U.S. investment swindler.
PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A Florida man accused of killing four family members during a Thanksgiving 2009 shooting is expected to enter a plea avoiding the death penalty, attorneys said.
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- A federal appellate court decision in the case of Bernie Madoff is being seen as a significant setback for the owners of the financially troubled New York Mets.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- The wife of a convicted multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme operator Bernie Madoff has left him in an attempt to put her life back together, his biographer said.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- A New York man said his iPad cases, made from clothes once belonging to fraudster Bernie Madoff, have been receiving a lot of interest from Wall Street.
NEW YORK, July 13 (UPI) -- Victims of disgraced New York investor Bernie Madoff should get refund checks soon, said the trustee handling funds collected in the massive Ponzi scheme.
BUTNER, N.C., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Speaking from jail in North Carolina, con man Bernie Madoff indicated though his Ponzi scam defrauded people out of their life savings, he was the victim.
NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- New York Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson said Monday he doesn't expect the team's operations to be affected by its owners' Bernie Madoff-related troubles.
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