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The son of Bernard Madoff's longtime accountant, who himself pleaded guilty to securities fraud in the scandal centered on the disgraced financier, has committed suicide in central Ohio, authorities said. Jeremy Friehling, 23, was found dead at his apartment of a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday in Columbus, where he was a second-year student at Ohio State's medical school, police there said.

Stanley Chais, a Beverly Hills money manager for Hollywood's elite who was accused of recklessly plowing nearly $1 billion in client funds to Bernard Madoff, has died.