Legal Opinion
Anwar v. Fairfield Greenwich Ltd.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 29, 2015No. 09 Civ. 118(VM)PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
VICTOR MARRERO, District Judge.
Before this Court are two sets of lawsuits by plaintiffs asserting claims related to their investments in four feeder funds (the “Funds”) founded and óperated by the Fairfield -Greenwich Group (“FGG”).1 The Funds, in turn, invested heavily in Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (“BMIS”), which, as is now well known, was a Ponzi scheme operated by Bernard Madoff (“Madoff’).
In the first of these actions, the “Anwar Action,” a certified class of plaintiffs (the “Anwar Plaintiffs”) representing shareholders and limited partners in the…
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