CDR Financial Products LLC of Beverly Hills, CA, and its founder, David Rubin, have been scrutinized by multiple federal agencies in recent years, from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Internal Revenue Service.

It used to be said that behind every successful man is a woman. In the case of President-elect Barack Obama, add his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, to the mix.

Caroline Kennedy has a lot of things going for her in her attempt to get appointed to the U.S. Senate.

Roland Burris has avoided controversy in his decades-long public career in Illinois, but he is a seasoned political player with deep ties to the Cook County (IL) Democratic Party.

Ignoring his self-described “evil twin,” Democratic strategist and spokesman Howard Wolfson is going to work for New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s 2009 re-election campaign.

Could one man operate an alleged $50-billion Ponzi scheme without help from anyone else?

Caroline Kennedy has friends in high places, including President-elect Barack Obama, whom she supported in his quest for the presidency.

The hedge fund executive who committed suicide in his 22nd-floor office on Madison Avenue was a blue-blood French aristocrat and champion yachtsman entrusted with the money of some of Europe’s wealthiest families.

What’s a Ponzi scheme got to do to get lasting respect? In October, Thomas J. Petters, a Minnesota businessman, was the talk of the business world for allegedly defrauding investors of $3 billion or more.

Looking for a place to stay during Barack Obama’s inauguration? New York Philharmonic music director Lorin Maazel and his wife are offering their Virginia estate for $50,000 a night.

Poetry is making a presidential inauguration comeback, Barack Obama having asked Elizabeth Alexander to read an original poem at his Jan. 21 ceremonies.

An Indian businessman with ties to both Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich and Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. is caught up in the probe of the governor’s alleged efforts to sell the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama.

Mary L. Schapiro, Barack Obama’s pick to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, is being described as the right person to help restore the commission’s battered reputation.

Disgraced trader Bernard Madoff may be relieved not to have to trade in the comforts of his $7 million East Side penthouse for a jail cell, but his neighbors are none too happy.

Former President Bill Clinton has revealed tens of millions in donations to his foundation from foreign nations that Hillary Rodham Clinton may have to negotiate with as secretary of state.