NEW YORK: Four former employees of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges they were in on his massive fraud, while a judge ordered a fifth - longtime Madoff secretary Annette Bongiorno - to New York to face trial with them.
Bongiorno, who was arrested last month, has failed to make bail set at $5 million. U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain rejected a defense request in federal court in Manhattan to lower the total, saying Bongiorno must surrender to U.S. marshals on Thursday afternoon in Florida, where she's under house arrest.
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