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Fairfield Greenwich Group

Largest single feeder organization to BLMIS via Fairfield Sentry
Tracked because Largest documented institutional conduit of victim capital into the Madoff Ponzi scheme; principals had separate financial-elite networks worth mapping.
Editorial summary · AI-drafted from public records

New York–based hedge-fund group founded in 1983; principal sponsor of the Fairfield Sentry Fund, the single largest BLMIS feeder fund. At collapse, Fairfield-managed vehicles held approximately $7.5 billion in BLMIS — the largest victim exposure of any feeder organization.

Facts on record3
Connections mapped14
Sources cited9
✦ Thin coverage gap +49 connected to 14 entities · only 3 facts on record · flagged for follow-up research
Evidence: 3S
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Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
Connection Map
Key Connections
← Bernie Madoff person
feeder_fund
Fairfield Greenwich Group was a major 'feeder fund' that funneled billions of dollars from investors into Madoff's Ponzi scheme via its Fairfield Sentry fund.
Facts (3)
Data Freshness
Ageing Last update: 159d ago · Avg age: 1515d
Confidence Tiers: Primary Source — cross-referenced government/corporate filings Pending Review — sourced but not independently verified AI Inference — analytical hypothesis from cross-referencing
✓ Verified Findings (3)
Independently re-checked: a second model read the source artifact and confirmed it supports the extracted claim.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated In May 2011 Fairfield Greenwich Group affiliates settled with the BLMIS SIPA Trustee Irving Picard for approximately $80 million; in September 2009 Fairfield Greenwich separately settled with the Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth for $8 million over disclosure violations.
Date: 2011-05-09 Added: 21 Apr 2026 ↗ SOURCE: Fairfield Greenwich Group — Wikipedia
✓ verified Partially Corroborated At the time of the December 2008 BLMIS collapse, Fairfield-managed feeder vehicles (principally Fairfield Sentry) held approximately $7.5 billion invested with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities — the largest exposure of any feeder organization.
Date: 2008-12-11 Added: 21 Apr 2026 ↗ SOURCE: Fairfield Greenwich Group — Wikipedia
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Founded 1983 by Walter Noel and Jeffrey Tucker as a New York–based hedge-fund group; sponsor of the Fairfield Sentry Fund (incorporated in the British Virgin Islands), the single largest BLMIS feeder fund.
Date: 1983-01-01 Added: 21 Apr 2026 ↗ SOURCE: Fairfield Greenwich Group — Wikipedia
All Connections (14)
→ Andrés Piedrahíta person
managing_partner secondary
Andrés Piedrahíta was a senior partner at Fairfield Greenwich Group, running the European and Latin American sales channel that brought much of the non-U.S. capital into Fairfield Sentry.
→ Jeffrey Tucker person
founder, co_founder secondary since 1983-01-01
Jeffrey Tucker co-founded Fairfield Greenwich Group in 1983 with Walter Noel; previously an SEC enforcement attorney.
→ Walter Noel person
founder, co_founder secondary since 1983-01-01
Walter Noel co-founded Fairfield Greenwich Group in 1983 with Jeffrey Tucker.
subsidiary, parent_subsidiary secondary since 1990-01-01
Fairfield Greenwich Group organized the BVI-domiciled Fairfield Sentry Limited in 1990 as its principal BLMIS feeder vehicle. The U.S. parent and the BVI vehicle together held the largest single feeder exposure to BLMIS at the December 2008 collapse.
feeder_fund secondary
FGG sponsored the Fairfield Sentry Fund and related vehicles which together held approximately $7.5 billion of customer money in BLMIS at the December 2008 collapse — the single largest feeder exposure.
← Irving H. Picard person
settlement secondary since 2011-05-09
Fairfield Greenwich affiliates settled with the BLMIS SIPA Trustee Irving Picard in May 2011 for approximately $80 million.
← Bernie Madoff person
feeder_fund primary since 2008
Fairfield Greenwich Group was a major 'feeder fund' that funneled billions of dollars from investors into Madoff's Ponzi scheme via its Fairfield Sentry fund.
← Frank DiPascali person
feeder fund inferential since 2009
Fairfield Greenwich was a major feeder fund into Madoff's scheme; DiPascali helped fabricate returns that attracted such funds.
← Mark Madoff person
affiliation secondary since 2008
Fairfield Greenwich Group was a major feeder fund that invested in BLMIS, where Mark Madoff oversaw market-making and trading.
peer exposure secondary since 2008
As the second-largest single-organization BLMIS exposure at $3.3 billion, Tremont Group Holdings was one of the two largest known feeder fund groups into BLMIS alongside Fairfield Greenwich Group.
associated_entity secondary since unknown
Both Kingate Management Limited and Fairfield Greenwich Group are entities linked to the BLMIS feeder fund network and appear in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database.
← Carl Shapiro person
investor inferential since 1960
As a Boston-area garment industry heir and among the earliest and largest BLMIS investors, Shapiro was part of the same network of wealthy families and feeder funds (like Fairfield Sentry) that invested with Madoff.
← Carlo Grosso person
affiliation inferential since unknown
Both Carlo Grosso and Fairfield Greenwich Group are named in the context of entities linked to the Madoff feeder fund network, with Grosso's Kingate structure being part of this ecosystem.
← Federico Ceretti person
affiliation inferential since unknown
Madoff feeder fund network association through Kingate structure (Fairfield Sentry was a related Madoff feeder)
Sources (9)
2022-02-11 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Fairfield Greenwich Group (2022-02-11) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2005-02-11 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Fairfield Greenwich Group (2005-02-11) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2009-03-16 ↗ SEC EDGAR: filing — Fairfield Greenwich Group (2009-03-16) sec_filing Processed 📜 Receipt
2026-05-10 UNVERIFIED SEARCH_ERROR: Fairfield Greenwich Group not found in opencorporates claim_flag Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Fairfield Greenwich Group — Corporate registrations (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Fairfield Greenwich Group — USASpending contracts (no results) contract Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Fairfield Greenwich Group — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Fairfield Greenwich Group — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Fairfield Greenwich Group — Court records (no results) court_document Processed 📜 Receipt