Scammed Law Student Wins Freeze of Madoff Bro Funds

A Brooklyn law student who lost a $500,000 inheritance in the Bernard Madoff scam has won a court order freezing the assets of the swindler's brother, reports Reuters. Peter Madoff was in charge the student's trust, which he invested in Madoff's s scheme. Peter Madoff was an executive officer of the investment company but has not been charged with a crime. The suit charges he had "full knowledge that it was a fraudulent Ponzi scheme and an unprecedented fraud." (More Peter Madoff stories.)