Irving Picard
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Irving H. Picard is a partner in the law firm Baker Hostetler
. He graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. degree (1963), from Boston University School of Law with a J.D. degree (1966), and from the New York University School of Law with an LL.M. degree in 1967, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1982. In 2008, U.S. District Judge Lawrence McKenna appointed Picard trustee of assets seized by the court from Bernard Madoff
. Since then, he has been centrally involved in the recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal
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Baker Hostetler
Baker Hostetler is an American law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio and founded in 1916. One of the firm's founders, Newton D. Baker, was U.S. Secretary of War during World War I and former Mayor of Cleveland....
. He graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, with a B.S. degree (1963), from Boston University School of Law with a J.D. degree (1966), and from the New York University School of Law with an LL.M. degree in 1967, and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1982. In 2008, U.S. District Judge Lawrence McKenna appointed Picard trustee of assets seized by the court from Bernard Madoff
Bernard Madoff
Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is a former American businessman, stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S...
. Since then, he has been centrally involved in the recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal
Recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal
There have been attempts for the recovery of funds from the Madoff investment scandal.Bernard L. "Bernie" Madoff's combined assets are about $826 million and have been frozen. Madoff provided a confidential list of his, and his firm's assets to the SEC on December 31, 2008, which was subsequently...
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