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Feds to go after Bernard and Ruth Madoff assets


    NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors want swindler Bernard Madoff and his wife Ruth to forfeit homes, cars, boats, securities, silverware and a piano following his March 12 guilty plea, according to a court document.

    The document filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan is the government's notice of intent to seek forfeiture of certain assets after Madoff admitted to 11 criminal charges in Wall Street's biggest fraud, which drew in as much as $65 billion over many years.

    Madoff's lawyers were not immediately available to comment.

    Madoff, 70, a former Nasdaq stock market chairman, is in jail pending sentencing on June 16. His attorneys intend to appeal a judge's order that revoked his bail after his dramatic courtroom plea last Thursday.

    (Reporting by Grant McCool, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)