Fairfield Greenwich Advisors
An investment management firm
$7,500,000,000
More than half of Fairfield Greenwich's $14.1 billion in assets under management, or about $7.5 billion was connected to Madoff.
Ascot Partners
A hedge fund founded by billionaire investor, philanthropist and GMAC chief J. Ezra Merkin
$1,800,000,000
The hedge fund had $1.8 billion under management as of Sept. 30, had substantially all of its assets invested with Mr. Madoff.
Access International Advisors
A New York-based investment firm
$1,400,000,000
The investment-advisory firm's co-founder Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, 65, was found dead in his Manhattan office on Dec. 24, 2008, in an apparent suicide.
Fairfield, Conn.
town pension fund
$42,000,000
The town's employees board and police and fire board, which cover 971 workers, had $41.9 million invested with Madoff, said Paul Hiller, Fairfield's chief fiscal officer.
Richard Spring
individual investor
$11,000,000
A Boca Raton resident and former securities analyst, says he had about 95% of his net worth invested with Mr. Madoff. Mr. Spring said he was also one of the unofficial agents who connected Mr. Madoff with dozens of investors, from a teacher who put in $50,000 to entrepreneurs and executives who would put in millions.
Steven Spielberg
The Spielberg charity -- the Wunderkinder Foundation
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Chais Family Foundation
A charity that gives away about $12.5 million annually to Jewish causes
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The California-based charity group invested entirely with Madoff, and was forced to shut down operations on Sunday after years of donating some $12.5 million annually to Jewish causes in Israel and Eastern Europe.
United Association Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 267 in Syracuse
Local union pension and health care funds
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The union is still trying to determine the extent of its losses. Its investments with Mr. Madoff go back 15 years.
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http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/st_madoff_victims_20081215.htmlFrom sports owners, to foreign banks, to Hollywood big wigs, to Jewish charities, to pensioners. They all got taken in by this 'sure thing'.