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...SIPA trustee handles bankruptcies when the Securities Investor Protection Corp. (SIPC) steps in to take charge of fallen brokerage houses. Picard is considered the superstar of SIPA trustees, having handled the largest cases SIPC has managed, and other large non-SIPC cases, such as portions of airline TWA's bankruptcy. He has participated in at least 38 major bankruptcy decisions. According to Stephen Harbeck, president of the Securities Investors Protection Corporation, Picard has served as trustee in more brokerage firm liquidations than anyone else in the U.S. (See the worst business deals...
...SIPA trustee's job, not unlike a Chapter 7 trustee, is to recover property, assess claims and liquidate any other assets of a bankrupt firm for the benefit of the estate and its creditors. Consequently, Picard is using his authority to collect from customers who received preferences, non-existent principal, and/or payouts of fictitious profits to the detriment of other defrauded customers whose money was consumed by Madoff's global Ponzi scheme...
...filed six major lawsuits, many against Madoff's largest feeder funds. The combined suits ask for the return of over $10 billion in fraudulent profits. Picard's complaints allege the people running the funds "knew or should have known" Madoff was a fake, simply based on the exorbitant, non-stop returns they received. Suits have been filed against Walter Noel's Fairfield-Greenwich Group, which withdrew $3.2 billion since 1995, Jeffrey Picower's funds, totaling $6.7 billion withdrawn, and against Stanley Chais, whose funds took out over $1 billion since 1995. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...nomination of demonstrates victory of "empathy ... over excellence" to notorious non-empathizer John...
West, Kanye •book is co-written by despite contempt for books - "Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books...