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Lawyer seeks 12-year sentence for Madoff

The thirst for "mob vengeance" should be ignored and Bernard Madoff sentenced to 12 years in prison, an effective life sentence for a man of his age, the Wall Street swindler's defense attorney said Tuesday. In a four-page letter to U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan, attorney Ira Sorkin asked the court to "set aside emotion and hysteria" when Madoff is sentenced Monday. At his sentencing...

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