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Peter Madoff taken into FBI custody after guilty plea

June 29, 2012 - 07:49 am
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NEW YORK (AP) - The FBI has taken Bernard Madoff's brother, Peter, into custody as a federal judge in New York prepares to accept his plea to criminal charges.

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FBI spokesman J. Peter Donald says Madoff was arrested at his lawyer's Manhattan office around 7 a.m. EDT Friday.

Madoff is scheduled to enter a plea to conspiracy and falsifying records. The government told a judge that he has agreed to serve 10 years in prison and relinquish his fortune.

The plea by the 66-year-old chief compliance officer at the Madoff investment business comes three years after his brother admitted to mammoth fraud.

Bernard Madoff is serving a 150-year prison term. He has insisted he carried out his fraud alone for decades, cheating thousands of people of billions of dollars.

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