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Madoff pleads guilty, is jailed for $65 billion fraud

Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty on Thursday to orchestrating the biggest investment fraud in Wall Street history and was jailed to await a sentence that could keep him in prison for the rest of his life. 3/12/2009 7:12 PM

• GM says can survive March without new U.S. aid 3/12/2009 8:10 PM
• U.S. lawmakers seek to tie exec pay to performance: report 3/13/2009 1:14 AM
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