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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NASHVILLE, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Attendees at a Tennessee auction purporting to sell items put up for bid by the victims of financial fraudster Bernie Madoff say it's a marketing ploy.
SANTA FE, N.M., Nov. 13 (UPI) -- A New Mexico senior who lost her savings in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme says she has taken to drawing portraits of the convict as therapy.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The United States government will auction a luxury yacht, two vessels and a convertible seized from convicted Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff next week.
BUTNER, N.C., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- The state of the stock market reportedly spurred a shoving match between jailed financier Bernie Madoff and a fellow inmate in Butner, N.C., witnesses said.
PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 7 (UPI) -- The wife of disgraced U.S. financier Bernie Madoff says she wants a Palm Beach County, Fla., tax refund check to be reissued in her name alone.
NEW YORK, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Jailed financier Bernie Madoff does not have cancer and is not terminally ill as one newspaper reports, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Monday.
BUTNER, N.C., July 28 (UPI) -- Convicted U.S. investment guru Bernie Madoff couldn't believe he got away with his fraud scheme as long as he did, a lawyer who talked to him in prison said.
NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) -- New York investor Bernie Madoff's net worth may place him a distant second among those who benefited from his fraud scheme, court records show.
NEW YORK, May 9 (UPI) -- The most needy victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme could be eligible for a quick $500,000 payout, officials said.
WASHINGTON, April 17 (UPI) -- The recession has caused the unraveling of dozens of financial schemes similar to the one masterminded by New York financier Bernie Madoff, officials say.