Playmate Insider Trading Scandal

Bernard Madoff may have ripped off 1,000 times as much money as Lehman Brothers trader Matthew Devlin, but the latter wins bonus scandal points for involving a Playmate in his scheme. Devlin has been charged, writes the New York Post, with masterminding a $4.8 million insider-trading scheme that passed information to his friends and included Maria Checa, Playboy magazine’s Miss August 1994. Devlin conveyed information to his friends via his publicist wife, whom he called the “golden goose.” Checa is not being charged, but is named in the civil lawsuit filed by the SEC. According to her Playboy spread, her turnoffs include “dishonest” people.