Sonja Kohn, another one of Bernard Madoff's key co-conspirators and a self-proclaimed "orthodox Jew", is now on the hot seat.

"Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee seeking to recover money for Madoff's investors, alleges that Sonja Kohn, the former president [and owner] of Bank Medici, masterminded the funnelling of billions of dollars to the New York-based investment company. "More than $9,000,000,000 of the Ponzi scheme's stolen capital is directly attributable to Kohn and the Medici enterprise," claimed Timothy Pfeifer, of Baker & Hostetler, the law firm representing Mr. Picard. In return, Ms. Kohn and her family allegedly received more than $62,000,000 from Mr. Madoff." (see photo)

-- London Telegraph

"In Sonja Kohn, Madoff found a criminal soulmate, whose greed and dishonest inventiveness equalled his own,' Irving Picard, the trustee, said in a statement... The trustee alleges that, by 1987, Mr Madoff and Ms Kohn had worked out a deal in which she would be paid a flat flee for bringing clients to his operation. Although the amounts varied, the alleged payments peaked at $6.5m a year and totalled $62m... By the time of Mr Madoff's arrest, she was responsible for 30 of Mr Madoff's accounts, including a series of hedge funds managed and marketed by her associates, the complaint said. Together, they accounted for more than $9bn."

-- Financial Times

While this woman is still walking around loudly proclaiming her innocence, one of Madoff's sons who was only indirectly involved in the scam has apparently committed suicide.

"The eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash in his Manhattan apartment on Saturday, the second anniversary of his father's arrest in a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that swindled thousands of investors of their life savings, law enforcement officials said... A year ago, the court-appointed trustee trying to unravel Madoff's financial affairs sued several relatives, including Peter, Mark and Andrew, accusing them of failing to detect the fraud while living lavish lifestyles financed with the family's ill-gotten fortune. The lawsuit accused Mark Madoff of using $66 million he received improperly to buy luxury homes in New York City, Nantucket and Connecticut."

-- MSNBC News