Assets of Madoff’s brother frozen

The financial assets of Peter Madoff — brother of convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff — have been frozen until an April 3 court hearing by Nassau Supreme Court Justice Stephen Bucaria, according to an order the judge filed on Wednesday.

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Human skull piece found in Turkish ‘acid well’

Investigators discovered part of a human skull and other remains at a site in southeastern Turkey where the bodies of Kurdish victims of alleged extrajudicial killings are suspected to have been doused in acid and buried, Turkey’s state news agency was reporting Friday.

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