Madoff Aide Bongiorno Seeks End to Pretrial House Arrest
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Annette Bongiorno, accused of helping her ex-boss, Bernard Madoff, run a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme, asked a federal judge to free her from pretrial house arrest, saying there’s no risk she will flee
Bongiorno, who was released on $3 million bail in January 2011, called her confinement “punitive” and argued that the government consented to the release of Madoff’s brother, Peter, on bond without house arrest or electronic monitoring after he pleaded guilty to federal charges, according to a filing in federal court in Manhattan.