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Madoff blames complicity in scandal
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February 17, 2011, Thursday
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DISGRACED Wall Street financier Bernard Madoff said in an interview published online on Tuesday that banks and hedge funds were "complicit" in his scheme to fleece victims out of billions of dollars.
Madoff did not name any institutions in his series of interviews with The New York Times but said banks and hedge funds "were complicit in one form or another." He said they failed to scrutinize the discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information.
"They had to know," he said in his first interviews for publication since his 2008 arrest. "But the attitude was sort of, 'If you're doing something wrong, we don't want to know.'"
Madoff spoke to the newspaper via e-mail and during a private two-hour interview at Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina, where he's serving a 150-year sentence. The reporter who conducted the interviews, Diana B. Henriques, is writing a book on the scandal.
A court-appointed trustee seeking to recover money on behalf of Madoff's victims filed a lawsuit this month against his primary banker, JPMorgan Chase, alleging the bank had suspected something wrong in his operation for years. The bank has denied any wrongdoing.
Madoff also said he had given the legal team of trustee Irving Picard "information I knew would be instrumental in recovering assets from those people complicit in the mess I put myself into."
Picard said yesterday through a spokeswoman that he will have no comment on the Times story.
Madoff did not name any institutions in his series of interviews with The New York Times but said banks and hedge funds "were complicit in one form or another." He said they failed to scrutinize the discrepancies between his regulatory filings and other information.
"They had to know," he said in his first interviews for publication since his 2008 arrest. "But the attitude was sort of, 'If you're doing something wrong, we don't want to know.'"
Madoff spoke to the newspaper via e-mail and during a private two-hour interview at Butner Federal Correctional Complex in North Carolina, where he's serving a 150-year sentence. The reporter who conducted the interviews, Diana B. Henriques, is writing a book on the scandal.
A court-appointed trustee seeking to recover money on behalf of Madoff's victims filed a lawsuit this month against his primary banker, JPMorgan Chase, alleging the bank had suspected something wrong in his operation for years. The bank has denied any wrongdoing.
Madoff also said he had given the legal team of trustee Irving Picard "information I knew would be instrumental in recovering assets from those people complicit in the mess I put myself into."
Picard said yesterday through a spokeswoman that he will have no comment on the Times story.
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