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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Handcuffed Madoff jailed after admitting fraud AFP - Friday, March 13 NEW YORK (AFP) - - Wall Street conman Bernard Madoff was led handcuffed to jail Thursday after pleading guilty to tricking thousands of people out of billions of dollars in one of history's biggest financial scams. ADVERTISEMENT Madoff, 70, told a packed New York court he was "deeply sorry and ashamed" for the decades-long Ponzi scheme and the former financial titan and chairman of the Nasdaq stock market now looks likely to die behind bars. He faces a maximum sentence on June 16 of 150 years after pleading guilty to all 11 counts of fraud, perjury and theft. Prosecutors also want to track down an astounding 177 billion dollars they say passed through Madoff's hands. Judge Denny Chin asked Madoff , wearing a grey suit, dark tie and white shirt, how he would plead. "Guilty," Madoff replied. Defense lawyer Ira Sorkin said the silver-haired money manager should be allowed to remain free on bail in his seven-million-dollar Manhattan apartment until sentencing. But Chin responded: "It is my intention to remand Mr Madoff," triggering applause from victims who had gathered in the court room. Federal marshals then handcuffed Madoff behind his back and led him away. Big questions remain over Madoff's possible accomplices and the extent of his theft. One of Madoff's victims, who was allowed to address the court, said instead of allowing the guilty plea there should have been a trial. "If we go to trial we have more of a chance to comprehend the global scale of this horrendous crime," the woman said. "We will bear witness to the pain that Mr Madoff inflicted on the young, the infirm and the old." Madoff looked nervous when he first entered the court, watched from the packed benches and via video link by hundreds more people in a separate room. He clasped and unclasped his hands, fidgeted with his chair, and answered questions from the judge in a barely audible voice. But he appeared to gather confidence after Chin asked him to recount his crimes. Speaking publicly for the first time since his shocking arrest on December 11, Madoff summarized how he lured clients into giving him their money. They believed he was making legitimate investments, when in reality he was running a Ponzi scheme where funds invested by new clients are used to pay fake returns to existing clients. Millions of dollars worth of investment funds sat in a New York bank account, which he would then dip into when clients said they wanted money back. "The essence of my scheme was that I represented to clients ... that I would invest their money in common stock. Those representations were false for many years. I never invested those funds in the securities," he said. "Instead, those funds were in a Chase Manhattan account." He said he was sorry and that he had never intended to perpetuate such an epic fraud, but that when he started out in the 1990s he felt "compelled" to impress important clients with good returns. "I believed it would end quickly and I would extricate myself and my clients," he said. "This proved difficult and, in the end, impossible." "I cannot adequately express how sorry I am," he added, saying: "I am here today to accept responsibility for my crimes." Although Madoff is now a finished man, vast questions hang over the scandal. No one has established just how much money was stolen. Prosecutors say that shortly before his arrest Madoff reported that he was managing about 65 billion dollars, whereas in reality he held only a "fraction" of that amount. In total, prosecutors say, the government seeks to recover 177 billion dollars from Madoff, something his lawyers call a wildly inflated figure. Another key question is who else might have been involved. "He didn't do these crimes alone and I don't understand why conspiracy is not one of his pleas," one of the victims allowed to speak told the court. "Who handled it when he was gone?" Prosecutors and Chin himself on Thursday stressed the case remains open. "The government's investigation continues, is continuing. A lot of resources are being expended both to find assets and to find anyone else who might be responsible for this fraud," prosecutor Marc Litt said. No-one else has been charged, but legal experts say the probe might turn to others, including Madoff's brother Peter, and his sons Mark and Andrew, who worked closely with him. His wife Ruth is about to get her own lawyer, having previously relied on Sorkin. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World NAACP says bank giants steered blacks to bad loansAP - Friday, March 13 AP NewsAlertAP - Friday, March 13 Mexico blasts Forbes for putting drug lord on listAP - Friday, March 13 Killer's march took 200 bullets, 1 hour, 11 livesAP - Friday, March 13 Putative Capone grandson seeks DNA to prove linkAP - Friday, March 13 Enlarge Photo Chart showing financial institutions worst hit by Bernard Madofff's alleged Ponzi scheme. 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