A New Jersey businessman and philanthropist has won a $7 million arbitration award against J. Ezra Merkin (pictured), a money manager who has been accused by investors of funneling more than $2 ...

Irving Picard, the bankruptcy trustee responsible for liquidating Bernie Madoff’s investment firm, dropped one of twelve claims against J. Ezra Merkin, the man who raked in a large chunk of ...

Ezra Merkin ... Judge Batts held that Mr. Merkin did not deceive the sophisticated investors in his hedge funds," said Andrew J. Levander, a lawyer for Mr. Merkin. "As Judge Batts explained ...

Then there was J. Ezra Merkin, the Orthodox scion renowned for his brilliance, financial savvy, and intimidating air of superiority, whose investing genius turned out to consist of using his ...

Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman also filed suit yesterday against J. Ezra Merkin, charging that the money manager defrauded him out of $40 million. In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court ...

The Bernie Madoff scandal cost financier J. Ezra Merkin his reputation and his money-management business. Now, Mr. Merkin, one of the most important sources of funds in Mr. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme ...

More fallout from Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme: “Financier and money manager J. Ezra Merkin agreed to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's demands to step down as manager of his hedge ...

Andrew M. Cuomo, New York’s attorney general, has issued subpoenas in an effort to determine whether the financier J. Ezra Merkin defrauded universities and charities when he invested their money with ...

J. Ezra Merkin, who is facing lawsuits over his close ties to the disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, resigned Friday as chairman of GMAC, the troubled financial arm of General Motors that is ...

Financier J. Ezra Merkin provided information to regulators investigating the $65 billion fraud by Bernard Madoff, a New York judge said in a ruling made public today. State Supreme Court Justice ...