JPMorgan Chase is off the hook after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a summary judgment this week agreeing that the investment giant couldn’t be shown to have had control over Bernie Madoff‘s Ponzi scheme.

In May of last year, Southern District Judge John Koeltl sided with JPMorgan Chase against a class of investors seeking to recover some of their lost investment from the bank, having escaped as “net winners” with profits from the scheme before it collapsed.

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