(Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation - New York Field Office) Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL BONVENTRE, the former Director of Operations for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 10 years in prison for his role in Madoff's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, the largest in history. BONVENTRE was also ordered to forfeit more than $155.5 billion. After a nearly six-month trial before U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, BONVENTRE was convicted in March 2014 of 22 counts of securities fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, falsifying the books and records of Madoff...
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