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The Lasting Shadow of Bernie Madoff

Ron Stein, who heads an advocacy group that opposes Mr. Picard’s formula, is placing hope in Congress. Last February, Representative Scott Garrett, Republican of New Jersey, introduced a bill that would require a trustee in a brokerage-firm bankruptcy to accept claims from innocent investors based on their final account statements, not on the net cash they lost. That bill would also bar a trustee from suing to recover fictional profits from those investors even if the brokerage firm’s bankruptcy was a result of a Ponzi scheme, where the “profits” were actually the cash the con artist stole from someone else. Read New York Times report here.

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