Federal prosecutors and regulators have charged Charles Bennett, a former corporate lawyer in New York who once worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, with running a $5 million Ponzi scheme.
Bennett unsuccessfully tried to kill himself on Nov. 3 by jumping off a pier into the Hudson River, an incident that led police to recover a suicide note from a Manhattan hotel room in the form of a 16-page letter called “A Sad Ending to My Life,” according to a criminal complaint filed late Friday against the 56-year-old lawyer by the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York.
