David Friehling, an accountant with ties to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, leaves the Manhattan federal courthouse in New York November 3, 2009. Reuters Pictures 4 weeks ago

David Friehling, an accountant with ties to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, leaves the Manhattan federal courthouse in New York November 3, 2009.

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  1. 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.
  2. Bernard Madoff's boat, Bull, cruises a waterway in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 as it waits to be sold at auction.
  3. Bernard Madoff's boat, Bull, cruises a waterway in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009 as it waits to be sold at auction.
  4. 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.
  5. Bernard Madoff's boat, Bull, is impounded at the National Liquidators dock in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. The boat and Madoff's house and New York apartment will be sold at public auction.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. David Friehling, an accountant with ties to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, leaves the Manhattan federal courthouse in New York November 3, 2009. Friehling pleaded guilty to fraud charges on Tuesday, but he told a U.S. judge he did not know about the swindler's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, which shook investor confidence and market regulators who missed it.
  10. David Friehling, an accountant with ties to disgraced financier Bernard Madoff, leaves the Manhattan federal courthouse in New York November 3, 2009.
  11. Bernard Madoff's accountant David Friehling, left, exits Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, in New York. Friehling pleaded guilty to securities fraud and other charges that could land him in prison for years.
  12. Bernard Madoff's auditor David Friehling exits Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, in New York. Friehling pleaded guilty to securities fraud and other charges that could land him in prison for years.
  13. Bernard Madoff's auditor David Friehling, center, exits Manhattan federal court Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, in New York. Friehling pleaded guilty to securities fraud and other charges that could land him in prison for years.

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