The federal bankruptcy judge presiding over the liquidation of assets related to Bernard Madoff’s epic Ponzi scheme has died, a clerk to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York said on Monday.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Burton Lifland, 84, died on Sunday, according to the clerk, Vito Genna. Genna said he did not know the cause of death.
via Federal judge overseeing Madoff liquidation dies — Reuters
