Picower Estate To Pay $2 Billion To Madoff Investors

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Mon, 05/03/2010 - 2:55pm

The estate of Jeffry Picower, an investor in Madoff's Ponzi scheme who died last fall, is expected soon to pay at least $2 billion to other investors burned by the fraud.

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