J. Ezra Merkin, the scion of a prominent family known for its generous support of Modern Orthodoxy, has emerged as a key link between a constellation of Orthodox institutions and Bernard Madoff, the ...

NEW YORK, Jan 30 (Reuters) - A federal judge said thetrustee liquidating Bernard Madoff's firm may pursue nearly allof his lawsuit to recoup hundreds of millions of dollarsstemming from New York money ...

Almost a decade after Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme collapsed, the trustee unwinding his fraud struck another settlement with one of the con man’s earliest investors -- a $280 million deal with the ...

MANHATTAN (CN) – Financier J. Ezra Merkin charged clients $470 million to “manage” their money, though he simply turned it over to Bernard Madoff and lost $2.4 billion of it, New ...

These are hard times for J. Ezra Merkin. Last month, it was revealed that Bernard L .Madoff made off with money Merkin had invested in his Ponzi scheme. On Friday, Merkin lost his job as chairman of ...

*UPDATE: Victor Teicher, the Merkin advisor described in the NYT story quoted below, disputes the NYT's characterization of these events. Full statement below. EARLIER: Hard to know where to start: ...