David Friehling, identified as Bernard Madoff’s accountant soon after Madoff’s 2008 confession to running his notorious Ponzi scheme, provided evidence in November that a certain Madoff associate knew all along that Madoff was running bogus numbers on his books — testifying he dutifully certified all such falsified documents the associate showed him. Friehling, who pleaded guilty in 2009 for his personal role in the scam, also revealed that somehow he’d actually blown $4.3 million of his own money in the swindle (on behalf of his children and other family members).
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