NEW YORK (Reuters) - A friend of Bernard Madoff accused of helping fund billions of dollars to the imprisoned swindler asked judges to dismiss charges against him by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the trustee of Madoff's investment advisory firm.
Lawyers for Robert Jaffe asked a Manhattan federal court to dismiss four counts in the SEC's civil fraud lawsuit, while complaining that the regulator was wrong to be "salaciously branding Jaffe a henchman of Bernie Madoff."
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