List Of Entities Announcing Exposure To Madoff Investments

The following entities have announced exposure to Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, the New York-based business that allegedly lost $50 billion in a giant pyramid scheme.

 
 
   Entity: Carl Shapiro 
   Exposure: $400 million 
   Date of disclosure: Jan. 7 
   Notes: Shapiro have Madoff $250 million around Dec. 1, though it is unclear 
   whether the money was in the form of a loan or an investment. The $400 
   million figure, disclosed Dec. 16, includes the Dec. 1 transaction. 
   Shapiro's charitable foundation, the Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation, 
   lost an estimated $100 million or more. 
 
   Entity: New York University 
   Exposure: $24 million 
   Date of disclosure: Jan. 7 
   Notes: NYU filed a lawsuit Dec. 24 claiming J. Ezra Merkin turned over his 
   investment responsibilities to Madoff's funds and lost $24 million of the    
   school's money. The suit names as defendants Merkin's Ariel Fund Ltd.; the 
   fund's investment manager, Gabriel Capital Corp.; and Fortis Bank. An NYU    
   lawyer said the school invested $94 million in Ariel, a partnership between 
   Merkin and Fortis, in the mid-1990s. A lawyer for Merkin said the school    
   only invested $30 million and made $60 million. Ariel plans to liquidate    
   due to Madoff-related losses, but a temporary restraining order prohibits    
   assets from being transferred out of the fund. 
 
   Entity: Bard College 
   Exposure: $3 million 
   Date of disclosure: Jan. 6 
   The school said J. Ezra Merkin's Ariel Fund invested the money with Madoff 
   without its knowledge. The losses on the investment include profits. 
 
   Entity: Martin Rosenman 
   Exposure: $10 million 
   Date of disclosure: Jan. 3 
   Notes: Rosenman, managing member of Rosenman Family LLC, wired $10 million 
   to Madoff via a JPMorgan Chase Bank account on Dec. 5, just six days before 
   Madoff's arrest. The funds weren't supposed to be touched until Jan. 1,    
   according to a suit filed in bankruptcy court, but Rosenman received a 
   statement Dec. 5 explaining the money was used to sell short $10 million in 
   U.S. Treasuries. There is no record that the Treasury short ever occurred. 
 
   Entity: Bank Medici AG 
   Exposure: $2.1 billion 
   Date of disclosure: Jan. 2 
   Notes: Bank Medici first reported its exposure Dec. 19. The bank is 25% 
   owned by Unicredit SpA (UCG.MI) and 75% owned by chairwoman Sonja Kohn.    
   Hedge funds run by the bank had almost all their money invested with       
   Madoff. Investor redemptions at the Herald funds have been suspended. The    
   bank has also stopped calculating net asset values. Austria's government    
   named Gerhard Altenberger to manage the bank, but won't supply it with 
   funds. 
 
   Entity: Henry Kaufman 
   Exposure: "several million dollars" 
   Date of disclosure: Dec. 31 
   Notes: The former Salomon Brothers chief economist had the money in a       
   brokerage account with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities for more    
   than five years. Kaufman said the amount was "no more than a couple percent 
   of my entire net worth," estimated to be several hundred million dollars,    
   and "immaterial to my financial well-being." 
 
   Entity: Genium Advisors 
   Exposure: nearly 6.7% of a EUR3 million ($4.2 million) fund invested in    
   Fairfield Sentry 
   Date of disclosure: Dec. 30 
   Notes: Roland Priborsky, Genium's chief, said he was comfortable with the 
   Fairfield Sentry investment in part because it was included in a list of    
   funds on which Union Bancaire Privee said it had done due diligence. 
 
   Entity: Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick 
   Exposure: n/a 
   Date of disclosure: Dec. 30 
   Notes: The actors' exposure was confirmed by Bacon's spokesman, Allen       
   Eichhorn. 
 
   Entity: Union Bancaire Privee 
   Exposure: $700 million via funds of funds and client portfolios 
   Date of disclosure: Dec. 30 
   Notes: Half of UBP's 22 funds of funds put at least some of their money    
   into Madoff-related investment vehicles, including one run by J. Ezra       
   Merkin. The principal fund, Dinvest Total Return, had about 3% of its more 
   than $1 billion of assets in Madoff-related funds. One fund of funds had as 
   much as 6.9% of assets in Madoff-related funds. UBP said total potential    
   Madoff-related investments amount to less than 1% of assets under          
   management. UBP also provided services such as investment advice and loans 
   to a division of Fairfield Greenwich Group. The bank managed $124.5 billion 
   as of June. The bank had most recently met with Madoff Nov. 25 as part of    
   an ongoing vetting process. 
 
   Entity: Rothschild & Cie 
   Exposure: n/a 
   Date of disclosure: Dec. 29 
   Notes: The investment bank has frozen its Elite fund, which had invested    
   nearly 23% of its assets in Access International Advisors' Luxalpha fund. 
 
   Entity: Thierry Magon de La Villehuchet 
   Exposure: $50 million 
   Date of disclosure: Dec. 29 
   Notes: De La Villehuchet put "the bulk of his wealth" with Madoff, 
   according to his brother. The French aristocrat was found dead of an       
   apparent suicide Dec. 24. 
 
   Entity: Access International Advisors 
   Exposure: $1.5 billion 
   Date of disclosure: Dec. 24 
   Notes: The investment-advisory firm's co-founder, Thierry Magon de La 
   Villehuchet, was found dead Dec. 24 in an apparent suicide. Access 
   International Advisors oversaw Luxalpha Sicav, a fund with Madoff-run       
   assets. Investors included Rothschild & Cie investment bank and Liliane    
   Bettencourt.