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SEC claims couple hijacked a charity

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • February 4 2013

The SEC has brought a stream of Ponzi scheme cases in recent months in which little has been left for investors. SEC v. We the People, Inc. (S.D. Fla

Insider gifts of securities to charities

  • Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 20 2011

A question posed occasionally at this time of year is whether a director or an officer may make a gift of his or her company’s securities to a charitable organization without exposing the director or officer to insider-trading liability under SEC Rule 10b-5

Will JASA become more forthcoming in disclosing its substantial losses and risks from investing with Madoff? - Installment 62

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 1 2011

Installment 61 of this blog series on Madoff discussed the $5.2 million clawback lawsuit (the “JASA Lawsuit”) recently filed by Trustee Irving Picard against Jewish Association for Services for the Aged (“JASA”), reaffirming the perplexing and inconsistent manner, virtually to the point of arbitrariness and unfairness, with which Picard has handled charities that invested with Madoff

Madoff and charities: the Lautenberg Foundation 2009 Form 990-pf - Part 1

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 24 2011

This is the forty-ninth in a series of installments on this blog that are discussing issues arising in the aftermath of the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff

The bankruptcy court grants Picard's motion to allow Hadassah to keep $32 million in fictitious profits

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 14 2011

On March 10, 2011, as requested in the Motion filed by Picard, the Honorable Burton R. Lifland, Bankruptcy Judge for the Madoff Estate, approved the Hadassah Settlement, whereby Hadassah will pay, within 60 business days, $45,000,000 of its alleged $77,000,000 clawback exposure

Madoff and charities: the Lautenberg Foundation files its past due 2008 Form 990-PF- Installment 41

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 15 2010

This is the forty-first in a series of installments on this blog that are discussing some of the issues arising in the aftermath of the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L

Madoff and charities: when will the Lautenberg Foundation file its past due 2008 Form 990-PF? - installment 40

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 3 2010

This is the fortieth in a series of installments on this blog that are discussing some of the issues arising in the aftermath of the Ponzi scheme perpetrated by Bernard L. Madoff (“Bernard”

Madoff and charities: some due diligence on the investment adviser for Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Ivy Asset Management LLC - Installment 34

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 23 2010

This is the thirty-fourth in a series of Installments on this blog that discusses issues that arose in the aftermath of the Bernard L. Madoff (“Madoff”) scandal

Revisiting Madoff and his stakeholders - is trustee Picard pursuing Hadassah and other charities as candidates for "clawback"?

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 2 2010

This is the thirty-second in a series of installments on this blog that have focused substantially on issues of charities arising in the aftermath of the long global Ponzi scheme of Bernard L Madoff ("Madoff") and others

The latest charitable casualty of Madoff: reviewing the transparency of American Jewish Congress

  • Fox Rothschild LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • July 26 2010

AJCongress was founded 91 years ago to fight anti-Semitism and protect civil rights