BernieMadoff
| 9:00AM 10/14/2009
Advertisements trumpeting "Bernie Madoff Auction" ahead of events being held at hotels around the country appear to have little or no connection to the criminal or his victims, a WalletPop investigation found. Instead, customers who show up are likely to find a garden-variety auction of items from...
| 7:00PM 9/11/2009
It's hard to imagine a pleasant foreclosure. Like root canals or appendicitis, they don't really come with a silver lining; after all, it's hard to find a way to put a smiley face on being turned out of one's home. However, while there are few things that can make a foreclosure enjoyable, there are...
| 5:30PM 6/29/2009
Dear Mrs. Madoff:I understand that with your husband in jail for the rest of his life and you losing claim to millions of dollars worth of real estate and other assets in the bargain, you are being left with only $2.5 million to your name. That gives you an income of about $125,000 a year.Keep this...
| 12:00PM 4/23/2009
Would you pay a premium to get the New York Mets season tickets once owned by Bernie Madoff? Apparently not.The Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that "Someone got a bargain with Bernard Madoff's New York Mets season tickets.The two seats in the Delta Club Gold section behind home...
| 5:15PM 4/08/2009
While details of the lifestyles of the formerly rich and famous have started to leak into the news, it has, in many ways, been easy to pretend that the recession was only happening to middle class people. Recently, however, in what is either the most desperate moment of the recession or a sign of...