Word: plea
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...unexpected guilty plea without a plea deal, the multiple counts - which include mail fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering, among others - and the potential prison term were revealed at what was supposed to be a minor hearing about a potential conflict of interest between Madoff and Sorkin. The lawyer and his father, now deceased, once invested with Madoff. The judge waived the conflict. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
Although a plea deal was widely anticipated, one was never reached, according to U.S. Attorney papers filed with the court. The government apparently never offered a plea deal, or one fell apart...
...Tuesday Chin asked Sorkin if it was his "expectation that [Madoff] will plead guilty" at the hearing on Thursday. "That's a reasonable expectation," Sorkin replied. The judge then said he would decide at the hearing whether to accept the plea and whether to remand Madoff to jail pending sentencing in several months, setting the stage for Madoff's climactic court appearance...
Since reports of the pending hearing surfaced on March 6, the Justice Department has begun to gather victims, saying on its website that they have the right to be "reasonably heard" at any public proceeding "involving release, plea, sentencing or any parole proceeding." The posting requires notice "prior to a plea proceeding scheduled for March...
...judge agrees to Madoff's guilty plea, there could be a delay of six months or more before sentencing, according to Isabelle A. Kirshner, a former assistant district attorney and now a partner at Clayman & Rosenberg, New York...