{"id":1610,"date":"2009-06-23T09:46:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2009-06-23T09:53:36","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T13:53:36","slug":"unravelling-the-madoff-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/06\/23\/unravelling-the-madoff-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Unravelling the Madoff scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With three new <a title=\"lawsuits filed\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124568875235837661.html#mod=testMod\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuits filed <\/a>against\u00a0investment\u00a0&#8220;feeders&#8221; of Bernard Madoff&#8217;s alleged $65 billion &#8220;Ponzi&#8221; scheme, federal investigators are\u00a0 slowing unravelling the mechanics of history&#8217;s biggest investment ripoff.\u00a0 School of Law Professor <a title=\"Tamar Frankel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/faculty\/profiles\/bios\/full-time\/frankel_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tamar Frankel<\/a>, a legal-ethics expert and authority on\u00a0fiduciary law, says the &#8220;middlemen&#8221; in the Madoff scheme should have know what was going on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The more they were paid for &#8216;feeding&#8217; Madoff, the more careful they should have been about their clients&#8217; investments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Contact Tamar Frankel, 617-353-3773, <a href=\"mailto:tfrankel@bu.edu\">tfrankel@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With three new lawsuits filed against\u00a0investment\u00a0&#8220;feeders&#8221; of Bernard Madoff&#8217;s alleged $65 billion &#8220;Ponzi&#8221; scheme, federal investigators are\u00a0 slowing unravelling the mechanics of history&#8217;s biggest investment ripoff.\u00a0 School of Law Professor Tamar Frankel, a legal-ethics expert and authority on\u00a0fiduciary law, says the &#8220;middlemen&#8221; in the Madoff scheme should have know what was going on. &#8220;The more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1333,583,1334],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1620,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}