JPMorgan Said to See Possible Accord on Madoff Scheme
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JPMorgan Chase & Co., under siege on multiple fronts by state and federal prosecutors investigating alleged wrongdoing at the largest U.S. bank, is in talks with federal prosecutors in New York to resolve allegations it helped facilitate Bernard Madoff’s crimes.
The probe by Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is tied to how the bank handled the funds of the convicted money manager and whether it turned a blind eye to his multibillion-dollar fraud, the biggest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history.