New York Mets

The well known travails of Fred Wilpon, the principal owner of the New York Mets, have all converged this past week. He, his partner Saul Katz and their families and affiliated enterprises (the “Wilpon/Katz Group”) lost several hundred million dollars when Bernard Madoff’s long running Ponzi scheme finally unraveled at the height of the financial crisis in 2008. The Mets’ on-field performance has been dismal, and

Irving Picard, the trustee overseeing the liquidation of Bernard L.

Judge Burton Lifland, the bankruptcy judge overseeing the liquidation proceedings of Bernard L.

Fred Wilpon, the owner of the New York Mets, was a close friend of Bernie Madoff, and it has been generally believed since the outset of the scandal that Wilpon, his family and affiliated enterprises lost hundreds of millions in the great Ponzi scheme. It has also been known that the Wilpon group was a so-called “net winner”, as it had collectively withdrawn more over the years from