Lawyers for the victims of Bernard L. Madoff have accused the Mets’ owners of enriching themselves with illegitimate profits from his Ponzi scheme. The owners, in turn, have called the lawyers shakedown artists bent on ruining their good reputations to extort money. It has, then, been a mean year all around since the Madoff trustee sued Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz, the Mets’ owners, for $1 billion. Read New York Times report here.
