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The longtime Madoff friend and investor was found dead of a heart attack in his Florida swimming pool in October, five months after Picard sued to recover $7.2 billion Jeffry Picower allegedly withdrew from Madoff accounts. His paper gains were often laughably suspect—950 percent in 1999, a year the S&P 500 gained 19.5 percent. Picower was "totally shocked" by Madoff's scam, family attorney William Zabel professed to the New York Times. But Picower's vast estate is fair game for the bankruptcy court.
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