Madoff Case Slowed By Millions Of Documents
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lawyers for three alleged cohorts of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff say the case is mired in a mountain of potential evidence.
The paper trail consists of millions of documents seized from Madoff's records following the collapse in 2008 of his epic fraud.
At a pretrial hearing in federal court in Manhattan, a defense attorney called the evidence "a massive amorphous blob."
Prosecutors told a judge they had created a database so the paperwork can be searched. They offered to give the defense a tutorial on how to use it.
Madoff is serving a 150-year prison sentence after admitting that he operated a Ponzi scheme for at least two decades. He admitted cheating thousands of individuals, charities, celebrities and institutional investors out of billions.
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