Bernard Madoff's Key Aide Arrested

Thu Feb 25, 2010

BBC News

A key confidant to imprisoned fraudster Bernard Madoff's former has been arrested on securities fraud charges.

Daniel Bonventre, Madoff's former director of operations, was charged with being behind the accounting fraud in the Ponzi scheme.

Madoff, 71, is serving 150 years for a $65bn fraud.

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