Ira Sorkin - Bernard Madoff

Bernard Madoff

Howard Squadron and several other partners invested with Bernard Madoff, and the firm's pension account, including about $19,000 belonging to Sorkin. Sorkin's parents have had about $900,000 invested with Madoff in more than one account; these were liquidated following the mother's death in 2007, long before the fraud became known, with the proceeds distributed to Sorkin's two grown sons.

Sorkin is the lead defense attorney on the Madoff fraud case, assisted by associates Daniel J. Horwitz, Nicole P. De Bello and Mauro M. Wolfe, who had changed firms along with him when he joined Dickstein Shapiro. On March 20, 2009, an appellate court denied his request to release Madoff from incarceration, to "penthouse arrest" pending his June, 2009 scheduled sentencing date.