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Madoff mess raises interesting white-collar bail issues

By Douglas A. Berman

The money mess created by Bernard Madoff continues to raise interesting legal issues for white-collar crime fans.  Specifically, as detailed in this new New York Law Journal piece, the standards for pre-trial bail are now being tested through the Madoff case: The decision by Bernard Madoff and his wife to ship jewelry and other valuables to family and friends may land him behind bars sooner rather than later.  Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Litt told a magistrate judge yesterday that Mr. Madoff and his wife Ruth mailed in excess of $1 million in valuables late last month despite a court order in a related civil case requiring the accused mastermind of a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme not to dissipate assets.... Defense attorney Ira Sorkin of Dickstein Shapiro said the mailing of the valuables, which included watches, a pair of cuff links and even a $200 pair of mittens, had nothing to do with allowing Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).