Bernard Madoff, chairman of Madoff Investment Securities, returns to his Manhattan apartment after making a court appearance Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 in New York. The judge in Madoff's fraud case has set new conditions for his bail, including a curfew and ankle-monitoring bracelet for the disgraced investor. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
- Bernard Madoff, chairman of Madoff Investment Securities, returns to his Manhattan apartment after making a court appearance Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 in New York. The judge in Madoff's fraud case has set new conditions for his bail, including a curfew and ankle-monitoring bracelet for the disgraced investor. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)
- This is the office of Friehling & Horowitz, CPA's in New City, NY, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008, where David Friehling is an accountant. Friehling is now enmeshed in one of Wall Street's biggest alleged scams and is under criminal investigation as his firm was the outside auditor for Bernard Madoff, who may have bilked investors of $50 billion. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)
- New York Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon, center, listens as pitcher Francisco Rodriguez answers questions during a press conference Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 in New York. Jeff Wilpon, a close friend of Mark Madoff for 30 years, had no inkling his family had been swindled until last Thursday, when his father _ New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon _ called and said Bernard Madoff had been arrested. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
- Real estate magnate and New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman gives an interview at his Boston Properties office Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 in New York. Zuckerman's charitable trust lost $30 million due to Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
- Ronnie Sue Ambrosino and her husband Dominic stand outside their motor home Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008 in Surprise, Ariz. The money Ronnie entrusted to Bernard Madoff allowed her to retire early, buy a luxury motor home, and travel around the country. Now Ambrosino's among thousands whose fortunes were wiped out by Bernard Madoff, and she's left hoping for a bailout that might never come. (AP Photo/Matt York)
- Pawnbroker Levi Touger looks over some jewelry that Marvin and Beverly Hoffman have brought into his Royal Palm Beach Fla., pawn shop on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. Touger's Royal Pawn & Jewelry has made loans to some of the well-heeled Palm Beach investors caught in the $50 billion Madoff scam, turning his business into a bit of a media sensation. The Hoffmans, who are not involved in the Madoff scheme, are friends of Palm Beach resident Bob Lappin, whose foundation pays to send Jewish youth to Israel. The foundation had to lay off its employees in the wake of the Madoff scandal. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
- Paul H. Hiller Jr. chief fiscal officer of the Town of Fairfield Conn. poses for a photograph Monday Dec. 15, 2008 in Fairfield Conn. Fairfield is scrambling to determine whether part of its municipal pension fund has fallen victim to high-stakes investment fraud. Town officials say $42 million of its pension investments, nearly 15 percent of the fund's total value, were entrusted to Bernard Madoff. Madoff, a Wall Street trader and former Nasdaq stock market chairman, was arrested Thursday on a charge of securities fraud. Hiller claimed the documents on desk are just his work and refused to relate any of the papers to the Madoff fraud case. (AP Photo/Douglas Healey)
- A view of entrance of the headquarters of the Swiss Bank Benedict Hentsch Fairfield, in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 15, 2008. The private Swiss bank Banque Benedict Hentsch Fairfield Partners SA says it has 56 million Swiss francs (US$47.5 million) of client assets invested under the management of U.S. financier Bernard L. Madoff, who has been accused of securities fraud. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)
- A logo on the Long Island Jewish Medical Center is shown in New Hyde Park, Monday, Dec. 15, 2008. The medical center is among many investors who had more than $24 billion in funds overseen by Bernard Madoff, the money manager arrested last week in an alleged fraud (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
- A home owned by Bernard Madoff is shown Monday, Dec. 15, 2008 in Palm Beach, Fla. The 70-year-old Madoff, well respected in the investment community after serving as chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market, was arrested Thursday in what prosecutors say was a $50 billion scheme to defraud investors. Some investors claim they've been wiped out, while others are still likely to come forward. (AP Photo)
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