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Madoff trustee seeking $22.1m

NEW YORK - Irving Picard, the liquidator for Bernard Madoff’s investment advisory business, asked a judge to approve $22.1 million in fees for him and his team with the law firm Baker & Hostetler LLP for five months of work on the case. (Boston Globe, 11/23/09)

Filing targets scheme’s start date

NEW YORK - Bernard Madoff’s enormous Ponzi scheme ended on Dec. 11, 2008, when he was arrested at his Manhattan penthouse. But for some early victims, the date his crime started could matter much more than when it stopped. (Boston Globe, 11/23/09)

Global raids target counterfeit drugs

In highly orchestrated raids around the world this week, Interpol officers in Europe, drug agents in the United States, and task forces from Sweden to Singapore hunted down counterfeit prescription drugs to stem a rapidly growing criminal business preying on financially pressed consumers looking for bargains. (Boston Globe, 11/20/09)