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The trustee in charge of the bankruptcy of Bernie Madoff’s investment firm spent $26.9 million in the six months ended Sept. 30. In that time, it has recovered $849,000 for the victims of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme.
The single largest expense for the period was $15.8 million in legal fees to trustee Irving Picard’s law firm, Baker Hostetler, Bloomberg News reported.
Of the funds…
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