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Merkin operated several funds, including Ascot Fund, Gabriel Capital Corp. and Ariel Fund, totaling $2.4 billion, that fed into Bernard L. Madoff Securities LLC, the so-called investment firm run by Madoff. In total, Merkin is charged with 720 breaches of fiduciary duty in raising, through social and charitable connections, over $4 billion, which he turned over to third-party money managers, like Madoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madoff Feeder Merkin Charged by Cuomo | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...Fairfield, Madoff's largest feeder, with some $7 billion invested in his mad world, was run by socialite Walter Noel. But there were dozens of others run by a variety of unregistered funds and characters, including the Ascot Partners fund, run by Ezra Merkin, and on the West Coast, the Brighton Co., run by Stanley Chais, one of three he ran. (See pictures of the demise of Bernie Madoff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Madoff's Feeder Funds Stole My Retirement | 4/5/2009 | See Source »

...known that feeder funds such as Fairfield Greenwich, Ascot Partners and Chais Investments, which are listed in the court document, had thousands of individual investors who placed billions into Madoff's Ponzi. These victims are not part of the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bernie Madoff Client List Is Made Public | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

...Tuesday, New York Law School sued BDO Seidman along with the fund it audited, Ascot Partners. Investors in Ascot, which was managed by GMAC chairman J. Ezra Merkin and invested all its money with Madoff, lost a reported $1.8 billion. New York Law School said its endowment fund had $3 million in Ascot. It's the first suit to name an accounting firm in connection with the Madoff case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Madoff Fraud: How Culpable Were the Auditors? | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

...Select Broad Market fund conformed to all professional standards and that the firm would vigorously defend its work. A BDO Seidman spokesperson says that his firm is not and has never been the auditor of Madoff Securities. The BDO spokesperson also says that his firm's audit of Ascot Partners met professional standards and that the firm would defend its work. "It is unfortunate that these investors would bring legal action before all of the facts are known and seek to blame others for their own investment decisions," the BDO spokesperson says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Madoff Fraud: How Culpable Were the Auditors? | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

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