A federal judge has made it easier for the trustee seeking money for Bernard Madoff’s victims to pursue more than $8 billion of claims against banks and other financial firms that received money from “feeder funds” that profited from the swindler’s massive Ponzi scheme. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff said federal bankruptcy law did not require the trustee, Irving Picard, to obtain final court orders against the feeder funds before pursuing claims against third parties to which those funds transferred money. More on Reuters here.
