>From today's New York Post:
TOP SEC LAWYER AND HIS BROS INHERITED $1.5M IN MADOFF PROFITS
The top lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission and his two brothers inherited more than $1.5 million in phony profits from their mother's investment in Bernard Madoff's epic Ponzi scheme, according to a startling suit filed by bankruptcy trustee Irving Picard.David Becker -- who was named SEC general counsel and senior policy director less than two months after Madoff's arrest in December 2008 -- was served with legal papers demanding return of the dirty money earlier this month, court records show.
Picard's "clawback" suit claims that Becker's mother's estate -- of which he and his brothers are co-executors -- received more than $2 million from Madoff's crooked investment firm. .......
Becker, who's slated to leave the SEC next week for a private-sector job, insisted he had no "absolutely" no idea Madoff had been running a fraud.
"This is about my parents' investments. I had nothing to do with my parents' investments," Becker said.Asked if he had told his bosses at the SEC -- which has been harshly criticized for failing to uncover Madoff's $65 billion scam -- he replied, "I don't discuss internal conversations with the SEC."