A criminal probe of a prominent California investment manager parallels a civil investigation that concluded he fed nearly $1 billion of investor money to Bernard Madoff, earning a quarter billion dollars in fees along the way, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors filed papers with a judge in U.S ...

The California attorney general on Tuesday sued a Beverly Hills money manager accused of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars in investments to con man Bernard Madoff. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court accuses Stanley Chais of securities fraud, unfair competition and other state business violations ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - California's attorney-general sued Los Angeles money manager Stanley Chais on Tuesday, accusing the celebrity fund manager of funneling money into Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme. California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a securities fraud lawsuit against Beverly Hills investment adviser Chais, accusing him of channeling hundreds of millions of dollars over about three decades ...

Federal regulators filed securities fraud charges Monday against a prominent California investment adviser and a New York brokerage firm said to be secretly controlled by Bernard Madoff, accusing them of funneling billions of dollars from investors into Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The Securities and Exchange ...