No joke: Bill Maher owns a stake in the New York Mets.
No joke: Bill Maher owns a stake in the New York Mets.
Mr. Met stood near the podium with baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, Mets owner Fred Wilpon and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The New York Mets owners and a trustee for Bernard Madoff's fraud victims settled Monday for $162 million in a case aimed at repairing the damage from a massive investment scheme.
The New York Mets' owners must pay up to $83 million to the trustee recovering money for Bernard Madoff investors, a judge said Monday, though he expressed doubt that the trustee will succeed in proving at a trial this month that he's entitled to as much as $300 million more.
With spring training just weeks away, nobody's working harder to prepare for the New York Mets' future than their lawyers.
The New York Mets owners say the deal is off to sell a minority stake in the team to hedge fund manager David Einhorn for $200 million.
The owners of the New York Mets thought they had found their white knight. After months of what appeared to be friendly negotiations with a potential minority owner, though, the cash-strapped organization is left still looking for help.
David Wright says he and Fred Wilpon have exchanged phone messages since the New York Mets owner made critical comments about the All-Star third baseman.
