The trustee liquidating Bernard Madoff’s firm on Monday began distributing another $351.6 million to the swindler’s former customers, boosting the amount recouped to nearly $6 billion. Irving Picard, the trustee, said the fourth interim payout will go to victims of the Ponzi scheme who had 1,081 accounts at Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities. Payments range from about $500 to about $77.8 million and average $325,000. More on CNBC here.
