Midnight Son
12-23-2008, 01:11 PM
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aWjSbyQ3u3fg&refer=home
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, who ran a fund that invested with Bernard Madoff (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Bernard+Madoff&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), was found dead today in his New York office in an apparent suicide, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
“Our investigative premise is that it was a suicide,” Kelly said in an interview. De La Villehuchet, 65, was found “with his feet propped up on his desk, a trash pail nearby to collect blood,” and no sign of a second person, Kelly said.
The money manager had “multiple stab wounds” to his arms and wrists, a box-cutter and pills were found nearby, and no suicide note was found, Kelly said. De La Villehuchet was co- founder and chief executive officer of Access International Advisors (http://www.aiagroup.com/), a New York firm that invested $1.4 billion with Madoff, who was arrested on Dec. 11 for allegedly running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
The death of de la Villehuchet, who founded Access in 1994 with Patrick Littaye (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Patrick+Littaye&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), came as lawsuits mounted in connection with investors victimized by Madoff. Fairfield Greenwich Group (http://www.fggus.com/), a hedge-fund firm that had $7.5 billion invested with Madoff, has been sued by investors for allegedly failing to protect their assets. A New York woman who says she lost most of her savings is seeking $1.7 million in damages from the Securities and Exchange Commission for Madoff losses.
Way to go, Bernie. You must be very proud of yourself. Allegedly.
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet, who ran a fund that invested with Bernard Madoff (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Bernard+Madoff&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), was found dead today in his New York office in an apparent suicide, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
“Our investigative premise is that it was a suicide,” Kelly said in an interview. De La Villehuchet, 65, was found “with his feet propped up on his desk, a trash pail nearby to collect blood,” and no sign of a second person, Kelly said.
The money manager had “multiple stab wounds” to his arms and wrists, a box-cutter and pills were found nearby, and no suicide note was found, Kelly said. De La Villehuchet was co- founder and chief executive officer of Access International Advisors (http://www.aiagroup.com/), a New York firm that invested $1.4 billion with Madoff, who was arrested on Dec. 11 for allegedly running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
The death of de la Villehuchet, who founded Access in 1994 with Patrick Littaye (http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Patrick+Littaye&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1), came as lawsuits mounted in connection with investors victimized by Madoff. Fairfield Greenwich Group (http://www.fggus.com/), a hedge-fund firm that had $7.5 billion invested with Madoff, has been sued by investors for allegedly failing to protect their assets. A New York woman who says she lost most of her savings is seeking $1.7 million in damages from the Securities and Exchange Commission for Madoff losses.
Way to go, Bernie. You must be very proud of yourself. Allegedly.