Feds target LI home of former Madoff employee

Annette Bongiorno

A $2.6 million colonial-style Long Island home belonging to Bernie Madoff’s former office manager could be seized as part of the federal government’s investigation into her boss’ $68 billion Ponzi scheme, the Post reported. Annette Bongiorno, who has not been criminally charged, was hit yesterday with a civil lawsuit by federal prosecutors seeking more than $5.1 million of her assets. Prosecutors, who first filed suit against Bongiorno in June, are now saying that they’ve found more than $2 million worth of additional assets. The updated Manhattan federal court filing targets a luxury home in Manhasset, Long Island that Bongiorno and her husband bought for $1.4 million in 2000, in addition to a $1.2 million lakeside home in Boca Raton, Fla., for which they paid $862,000 in 1995. The suit also seeks forfeiture of a 2007 Mercedes-Benz sedan worth $65,900, that Bongiorno purchased in 2007. All the assets will be auctioned off to pay back victims of Madoff’s scheme. [Post]

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