The ocean front beach house of financier Bernard Madoff is seen on Long Island in Montauk, New York in this December 18, 2008 file photo. The New York Times reported September 17, 2009 that the home owned by disgraced Wall Street investment manager Madoff, convicted of orchestrating a $50 billion fraud, has been sold for more than the $8.75 million asking price according to the listing agent for the property and the U.S Marshals Service. Reuters Pictures 2 months ago

The ocean front beach house of financier Bernard Madoff is seen on Long Island in Montauk, New York in this December 18, 2008 file photo. The New York Times reported September 17, 2009 that the home owned by disgraced Wall Street investment manager Madoff, convicted of orchestrating a $50 billion fraud, has been sold for more than the $8.75 million asking price according to the listing agent for the property and the U.S Marshals Service.

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  9. Everything in Bernard Madoff's study in his Palm Beach, Fla. home Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009, is tagged for auction after the house was seized by the US government.
  10. Bernard Madoff's boat, Bull, cruises a waterway in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 as it waits to be sold at auction.
  11. Bernard Madoff's boat, Bull, cruises a waterway in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 as it waits to be sold at auction.
  12. Bernard Madoff's boat, Bull, features three small state rooms with bunk beds, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 rather than a large state room with regular size beds as it waits to be sold at auction in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
  13. RNPS YEAR 2009 - Barbara Karen Dweck stands with hands painted as blood stains outside Manhattan federal court house after Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York, March 12, 2009. Multimillionaire swindler Bernard Madoff is leaving the luxury of his Manhattan penthouse to become just another inmate in a crowded jail. The 70-year-old former Nasdaq chairman who pleaded guilty to fraud on Thursday in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history, will likely share an 8-foot-by-7-1/2-foot cell with another inmate while he awaits sentencing, scheduled for June 16 by Judge Denny Chin.
  14. Bernard Madoff walks back to his apartment in New York December 17, 2008. Disgraced financier Madoff, accused of orchestrating a $50 billion fraud, was placed under house arrest on Wednesday as BNP Paribas became the latest European bank to be sideswiped by the scandal. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton.
  15. A Shelter Island Runabout sport vessel owned by Bernard Madoff named "Sitting Bull" sits in the dockyard National Liquidators in Davie, Florida November 16, 2009. The 38-footer is among three Madoff vessels up for sale in a live auction tomorrow with proceeds going to victim restitution.
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