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Mets Reportedly Received $20 Million in Aid From Major League Baseball

The New York Mets have received a minimum of $20 million in assistance from Major League Baseball as they continue to fight a lawsuit brought against them by victims of Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, according to a report in the New York Times. Irving H. Picard, the trustee of the victims in the suit, is seeking close to...

Wilpons Plan to Keep Control of Mets

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) -- With the New York Mets under pressure because of a lawsuit and searching for investors, Jeff Wilpon insisted on the eve of spring training that his family won't give up control of the team. Owner Fred Wilpon and son Jeff, the team's chief operating officer, said Jan. 28 they were exploring...

Bernie Madoff Interview: Were the Banks and the Mets' Owners in the Know?

What did the banks know? In Bernard Madoff's recent interview with a New York Times journalist -- the first interview he's granted from prison -- the Ponzi-schemer says that the banks "had to know" he was presiding over an enormous fraud. The accusatory statement is reverberating around the Internet today. What's...

Madoff: Mets Owners 'Knew Nothing' of Ponzi Scheme

The Mets' ownership group was unaware of the massive Ponzi scheme being run by Bernie Madoff, the disgraced financier said in an interview from prison. Madoff told The New York Times that Fred Wilpon and partner Saul Katz "knew nothing" of the fraud, which cost investors billions. Trustee Irving Picard has filed...

Donald Trump Weighing Investment in Mets

NEW YORK (AP) -- Donald Trump is thinking about investing in the New York Mets. The New York real estate owner with a flair for publicity said Wednesday he wants to help Mets owner Fred Wilpon. Wilpon is under pressure from a lawsuit from the trustee trying to recover money for the victims of the Bernard Madoff...

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06/01/12 Roundup: Gonzalez Homers in Fourth Straight At-Bat for... Source: International Herald Tribune Gonzalez was intentionally walked in the second inning, doubled in the fourth and singled in the eighth.
05/31/12 Roundup: Dodgers Send Kemp Back to D.L. With Hamstring... Source: The New York Times - New York NY The move came Thursday after Kemp went 1 for 4 with a double and a run scored in two games since being reinstated from the disabled list two days earlier.
05/31/12 Bats: Mets Owners' Settlement With Madoff Trustee Is... Source: The New York Times - New York NY The settlement proposed in mid-March to end the litigation against the Mets' owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz received the approval Thursday of the judge overseeing the case.
05/31/12 NY Mets owners' Madoff settlement OK'd by US judge Source: Reuters A $162 million settlement between the owners of the New York Mets and the trustee seeking money for the victims of Bernard Madoff's fraud was approved by a U.S. judge on Thursday.
05/18/12 Wilpon, N.Y. City To Redevelop Area Near Citi Field Source: Sports Business Journal A new deal between N.Y. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration and a group of developers including Mets Owner Fred Wilpon and team President Saul Katz "calls for the remediation and redevelopment of a 20-acre area of the blighted Willets Point neighborhood next to Citi Field,&rdquo...

Background on fred wilpon

Fred Wilpon (born November 22, 1936 Bensonhurst, Brooklyn) is a real estate developer, baseball executive and the majority owner of the New York Mets.

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