Victims of Madoff Ponzi Scheme to Receive Millions More in Compensation
Source: The New York Times
WASHINGTON Victims of Bernard L. Madoff, the architect of one of Wall Streets largest frauds, will receive another $504 million, proceeds from assets that the government seized after Mr. Madoffs financial firm collapsed a decade ago.
With this distribution, the second in a series of payouts, about 21,000 victims will have received a total of more than $1.2 billion, the Justice Department said. The payments were made by the Madoff Victim Fund, a government entity created to help people who lost money when Mr. Madoffs long-running Ponzi scheme unraveled.
The government said it could return more than $4 billion to victims who lost their savings to Mr. Madoff and his firm, Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities. But that number is still small compared with the imaginary profits the firm had promised investors and the real losses it incurred.
When Mr. Madoff confessed to his crime, he estimated that he had lost about $50 billion. Later estimated losses were even higher: about $65 billion in paper wealth and $17.5 billion in cash.
Mr. Madoff spent client money on family and friends, rather than investing it, and then took in money from additional clients to pay out early investors and cover up the fraud.
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BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)I wonder how he feels about seizing all of the assets of his GOP/Russian triator pals who have basically raped this country only to give it to Putin on a silver platter. I want the moron, his evil, greedy spawn and whoever else sold us (traitors) to have all of their assets seized and given to the American citizens who were hurt and ripped off by their policies like healthcare, DACA, etc.
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(7,805 posts).than most people know