The defense lawyer for former Bernard Madoff aide Annette Bongiorno displayed a familiar photo of the Ponzi scheme mastermind on courtroom video monitors Tuesday during his closing arguments in her fraud trial. That’s how Bongiorno viewed her boss before the world learned Madoff ran a scam that stole an estimated $20 billion from thousands of investors, said attorney Roland Riopelle. Then he displayed a New York Magazine image that depicted Madoff as the malevolent Joker character from a recent Batman movie. More on USA Today here.
