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Ralph Cioffi

Former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager arrested for fraud
Tracked because Former Bear Stearns hedge fund manager arrested for fraud · 9 documented connections
Facts on record3
Connections mapped9
Sources cited12
✦ Thin coverage gap +15 connected to 9 entities · only 3 facts on record · flagged for follow-up research
Evidence: 1P 1S 1I
Stated vs Revealed
No documented contradictions on file.
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Documented financial relationships span 0 money flow chains, while 1 elected official holds documented connections.
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Calculation Methodology

Contract values are summed from documented money flow chains where this entity appears as a source or destination node. Amounts are drawn from USASpending.gov, FEC filings, SEC EDGAR, or LD-2 lobbying registrations.

Donor contributions aggregate documented amounts from the donor_interests table, sourced from FEC individual and PAC contribution filings.

Connected officials are elected officials in our database with a mapped relationship (lobbying, board membership, campaign contribution, etc.) to this entity.

Annualised flow represents the total documented dollar amount traced through money flow hops involving this entity. Where hop-level amounts are unavailable, the chain-level documented total is used as a conservative upper bound.

All figures are drawn from public filings. Estimates are conservative — undisclosed transactions, dark money, and vanish-point hops are excluded from totals. This is a minimum documented floor, not a ceiling.

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Key Connections
→ Securities and Exchange Commission government agency
regulatory_filing
Ralph Cioffi filed a filing with the SEC on 2013-08-29.
→ Bear Stearns company
employment
Cioffi was the Bear Stearns hedge fund manager who ran the two collapsed funds. He was charged with securities fraud by the SEC in 2008 and acquitted in 2009.
← Jeffrey Epstein person
investor
Epstein invested $57 million in Cioffi's Bear Stearns hedge fund in 2006
Facts (3)
Data Freshness
Ageing Last update: 160d ago · Avg age: 1350d
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 (2)
Independently re-checked: a second model read the source artifact and confirmed it supports the extracted claim.
✓ verified Partially Corroborated Ralph Cioffi filed filing with the SEC on 2013-08-29. Accession number: N/A.
✓ verified Primary Source CIOFFI, RALPH of NAPLES, FL (employer: RETIRED, occupation: RETIRED) made a campaign contribution of $1.0K to SCHENKE FOR CONGRESS on 2025-12-31. FEC transaction ID: [postcode redacted].4329.
All Connections (9)
→ Bear Stearns company
employment primary
Cioffi was the Bear Stearns hedge fund manager who ran the two collapsed funds. He was charged with securities fraud by the SEC in 2008 and acquitted in 2009.
→ James Cayne person
former supervisor / CEO inferential since 2007
James Cayne was CEO of Bear Stearns during the time Ralph Cioffi managed the firm's hedge funds.
→ Alan Schwartz person
former supervisor / CEO inferential since 2008
Alan Schwartz succeeded James Cayne as CEO of Bear Stearns in 2008, during the collapse of Cioffi's funds.
→ Warren Spector person
former supervisor inferential since 2007
Warren Spector was a senior executive at Bear Stearns who oversaw the asset management division including Cioffi's funds.
→ Securities and Exchange Commission government agency
regulatory_filing primary since 2013
Ralph Cioffi filed a filing with the SEC on 2013-08-29.
→ Matthew Tannin person
colleague inferential since 2007
Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin were co-managers of Bear Stearns hedge funds that collapsed in 2007, both charged with securities fraud.
← Jeffrey Epstein person
investor confirmed
Epstein invested $57 million in Cioffi's Bear Stearns hedge fund in 2006
← Jonathan L. Jackson person
none_identified secondary
No direct connection identified between Jackson and Cioffi.
← Henry Paulson person
membership secondary since 2007
Ralph Cioffi managed Bear Stearns' hedge funds that collapsed in 2007, preceding the firm's downfall while Paulson was still involved.
Sources (12)
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Ralph Cioffi — Court records (no results) court_document Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Ralph Cioffi — FEC donations (no results) fec_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Ralph Cioffi — Parliamentary records (no results) parliamentary_record Processed 📜 Receipt
2026-05-09 UNVERIFIED SEARCH_ERROR: Ralph Cioffi not found in fec claim_flag Processed 📜 Receipt
2026 UNVERIFIED Research: Ralph Cioffi — Lobbying disclosures (no results) government_disclosure Processed 📜 Receipt