(Bloomberg) -- Bernard M. Madoff’s ex-operations chief, who was arrested last month, was indicted by a federal grand jury for helping his boss run a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors and illegally infused $750 million into parts of the business that Madoff insisted was legitimate.
Daniel Bonventre, 63, is the sixth person charged in the largest-ever U.S. Ponzi scheme. Prosecutors and regulators said he was a key aide to Frank DiPascali, the Madoff lieutenant who is helping the government unravel a fraud that cost investors billions of dollars.
Bonventre’s indictment follows charges against Madoff, DiPascali, Madoff accountant David G. Friehling, 50, and two computer operators, Jerome O’Hara and George Perez. O’Hara and Perez were previously indicted, and their case was joined to Bonventre’s in today’s indictment.
Bonventre is free on a $5 million bond. He lived in Queens, New York, while working at Manhattan-based Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. His attorney, Andrew Frisch, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment. Frisch previously denied Bonventre did anything wrong.
The case is U.S. v. Bonventre, 10-cr-228, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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