Irving Picard, the trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s former firm, asked a judge to prohibit evidence about his fees at a trial over claims against the owners of the New York Mets baseball team. Lawyers for the defendants in the Mets trial have sought to depose Mr. Picard and question him about his retention of the Baker & Hostetler law firm and whether “the trustee has any pecuniary incentive tied specifically to this litigation,” according to e-mails between Mr. Picard and Mets lawyers filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan. Read more in Crain’s here.
