Five former employees of disgraced investment manager Bernard Madoff should be sentenced to “significant” prison sentences of up to 20 years or more, prosecutors said in a court filing on Friday. via Madoff associates should get ‘significant’ time: prosecutors – Reuters
That surely came as no surprise to prosecutors in Bharara’s office. Letters from prosecutors to the judge indicate that they were upset that she did not let the insider trading counts go to the jury rather than take the rare step of dismissing them — a step the prosecutors can’t appeal. In one letter, they complained that she was “effectively…