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Statement Of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet BhararaOn The Convictions Of Former Employees Of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC

For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York



“As the jury unanimously found, these five defendants played crucial roles in constructing and maintaining the house of cards that was the Madoff investment fraud. These convictions, along with the prior guilty pleas of nine other defendants, demonstrate what we have believed from the earliest stages of the investigation: this largest-ever Ponzi scheme could not have been the work of one person. The trial established that the Madoff fraud began at least as far back as the early 1970s, decades before it came to light. These defendants each played an important role in carrying out the charade, propping it up, and concealing it from regulators, auditors, taxing authorities, lenders, and investors. The scheme these defendants helped perpetrate cost innumerable investors their life savings. Now it likely will cost the defendants their freedom.”

Updated May 13, 2015

Press Release Number: 14-083