Bernard L. Madoff
Defendant
Founder of the firm. Arrested 11 December 2008; pleaded guilty 12 March 2009; sentenced to 150 years on 29 June 2009; died in custody in 2021.
The Madoff file is crowded with feeder-fund managers and counterparties. The six names below are the ones the criminal and SIPA records return to most often.
Roles here are taken from pleas, sentencing transcripts, trustee papers, and the SEC inspector-general report — not from memoir claims.
People
Denny Chin
U.S. District Judge
Southern District of New York judge who took the 2009 plea and imposed the 150-year sentence, citing the scale of the harm and the need for general deterrence.
Irving H. Picard
SIPA trustee
Court-appointed trustee who reconstructed transfers, sued recipients of alleged fictitious profits, and reported recoveries to the bankruptcy court.
Harry Markopolos
Independent analyst
Quant who repeatedly told the SEC the reported returns were implausible. His submissions are exhibits in the 2009 OIG report on why examinations failed.
Frank DiPascali
Cooperating aide
Longtime employee who pleaded guilty in 2009 to helping fabricate the advisory record. His cooperation informed later employee and civil cases.
Peter Madoff
Brother; compliance officer
Former chief compliance officer. Pleaded guilty in 2012 to conspiracy and falsifying records and received a ten-year sentence.
Sons Mark and Andrew Madoff reported their father to authorities in December 2008; they were not charged in the criminal fraud. Mark died in 2010; Andrew died in 2014.
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