Five ex-employees of Bernard Madoff on trial accused of aiding his $17 billion fraud seek to “embarrass” U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission witnesses by asking about bungled Madoff audits, prosecutors say. The questions, to be asked on cross-examination, should be barred because the SEC employees who will testify began probing only after Madoff’s arrest on Dec. 11, 2008, and weren’t involved in earlier reviews that failed to uncover the Ponzi scheme, prosecutor Randall Jackson said yesterday at a hearing. More on Bloomberg here.
