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Madoff geeks charged for writing book-cooking code

March 18, 2010 02:05

'House 17' and the secret algorithm

A federal grand jury has indicted two computer programmers on fraud and conspiracy charges for developing programs used by Bernard Madoff to cook the books in his billion-dollar ponzi scheme.?

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