Madoff Office Manager Gets Six Years

Annette Bongiorno, who joined Bernard Madoff’s investment firm straight out of high school and spent four decades in his employment, much of it as his office manager, was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, showing leniency and handing out a sentence much shorter than federal guidelines allowed and what prosecutors had sought, said Bongiorno was clearly not “evil” like Madoff, but that she “consciously avoided” the truth about Madoff’s fraud. Bongiorno, 67, “willfully blinded herself,” Taylor said, and “chose Madoff’s blessing” over “her own moral compass.” More on Fox News here.