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On Sunday, money manager Stanley Chais died at age 84, still under investigation for his involvement with Bernard Madoff. Chais channeled large amounts of investors' money to the now-notorious Ponzi schemer, and over the years extracted more than $1 billion from Madoff's fund.

A recent decision in the U.S. District Court raises the stakes for "feeder funds" who invested with Bernie Madoff. The judge wove through a "virtual minefield of lawyerly defenses" by Fairfield to get this pesky case dismissed without a trial.

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Monday (last updated at 7:23 a.m. Eastern time): Hurd's Leadership Questioned: Many questions remain unanswered about Friday's sudden departure of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) chief executive Mark Hurd. Hurd resigned after the...

In an attempt to recover more than $30 million from Bernie Madoff's family and the family businesses, a court appointed trustee filed three new lawsuits in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on Thursday,

Trustee Irving Picard, charged with recovering money for the victims of Bernard Madoff, is preparing a series of lawsuits to win back money from investors who gained financially from their association with Madoff.

Same old, same old: Get-rich-quick, high-yield investment schemes on the Internet feign social acceptance with clever use of Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, but they operate on age-old Ponzi principles. If it sounds too good to be true...

Winthrop Brown, a Washington lawyer who lobbies on behalf of financial services firms, says the new regulations should get "a pretty good grade" from Wall Street -- and from Main Street. But will they prevent another economic meltdown?

The Bernie Madoff scandal made lots of people wonder if they'd checked out their brokers or financial advisers thoroughly enough. If you haven't gone through those steps yet, here's where to start.

"Finders keepers, losers weepers ..." We all learned it on the playground. Elvis even sang about it. But some of us -- and by some I mean corporate CEOs -- managed to grow up thinking it was true. Nothing else explains why Maynard L. Jenkins, former chief executive of auto-parts retailer CSK...