United States v. Madoff - Ira Lee Sorkin, Bernard Madoff''s attorney, gratefully acknowledged Casale Associates' involvement in submitting the Bail Modification Agreement Security Plan, saying "Casale's expertise was needed to set up and develop a security plan."
Mr. Casale added, "We are pleased by the Court's decision allowing Mr. Madoff to remain free on bail and pleased that the Government accepts and the Court approves my firm's integrity and professionalism.
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The New York Times
High-profile and high-paying baby-sitting.
“Bail Sitter”
By Alan Feuer
(excerpt) December 27, 2009—If you had been looking closely during the criminal case of Bernard L. Madoff you might have spotted a portly man with a walrus mustache hovering just behind the defendant’s elbow on his various trips to court.
Though dressed like a lawyer, he was not one; nor a prosecutor, a personal assistant, a limousine driver or a family friend. His name, in fact, is Nick Casale and he is a retired New York Police Department detective who was serving as a monitor in the latest iteration of that age-old institution known as bail.
Mr. Casale, in short, was a state-sanctioned nanny, escorting Mr. Madoff back and forth from his penthouse to the courthouse to ensure that the world’s most famous fraudster abided by the strict conditions that had gotten him out of jail. “It was an almost military matter,” Mr. Casale observed proudly, sitting in his office, high over Madison Avenue.
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