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Court OKs nearly $17M in Madoff case legal fees

Thursday turned into a nice payday for lawyers cleaning up the mess in the Bernard Madoff fraud.

Nearly $17 million in legal fees and expenses was approved by a federal bankruptcy court judge for the international search for Madoff investor funds.

Most of it, nearly $15 million, covers legal fees and expenses of the Manhattan law firm of Baker & Hostetler Llp, where the special trustee...

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