News Source: BBC
| 5 months ago
In March, Madoff pleaded guilty to 11 charges that he masterminded a $50bn (£35bn) investment fraud. He will be sentenced on 29 June and could be jailed for up to 150 years...New York District Judge Denny Chin has received more than 100 letters from...
News Source: The News Tribune
| 5 months ago
Bernard Madoff’s lawyer has told a judge scheduled to sentence the disgraced financier next week that 12 years in prison will be sufficient punishment for the man who swindled tens of billions of investors’ dollars in one of history’s biggest...
News Source: Boston Herald
| 5 months ago
B ernard Madoff’s victims say they support his plea for just 12 years in prison - if he serves 50 such terms in a row or spends his entire sentence “hung by his toes.” “When somebody has devastated people’s lives by the thousands, it doesn...
News Source: The independent
| 5 months ago
Bernard Madoff is begging for a jail sentence that is just a fraction of the legal maximum he can expect for running history's largest fraud, saying that the US court system should not give in to "hysteria" and "mob justice". His attorney, Ira...
News Source: Palm Beach Daily News
| 5 months ago
Scores of people have written letters to a federal court in New York court detailing the desperate turn their lives have taken since Bernard Madoff in December admitted he had been operating a $65 billion Ponzi scheme. In a sentiment repeated by...
News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| 5 months ago
Bernard Madoff has sought a sentence of 12 years or less for his aging client, who he says "has an approximate life expectancy of 13 years". In a letter to the judge overseeing the case in New York, lawyer Ira Sorkin said any sentence longer than 12...