NEW YORK Bernard Madoff and his wife of one’sitting bosom had $823 the multitude in assets at the end of last year, including $22 million in properties stretching from New York to the French Riviera, a $7 million yacht and a $2.2 million boat named “Bull,” according to a paper his lawyers filed Friday.

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The document, prepared for the Securities and Exchange Commission at the end of last year, was contained in papers filed with the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an effort to get Madoff freed on bail.

Among the couple’s assets: a $12 million moiety share in a plane, $65,000 in silverware and a $39,000 piano. It values their four properties - in Manhattan, Montauk, Palm Beach, Fla., and Cap d’Antibes, France - at $22 million, and the furniture, fine shrewdness and household goods in the homes at $8.7 million.

But the bulk of Madoff’s effects, according to the document, consists of an estimated $700 million estimation put on his investment business. Madoff said during his plea that the market making and see preprinter trading side of his business were “lawful, profitable and auspicious in all respects.”

The couple’session monthly expenses included $100,000 for authorized fees, $140,000 notwithstanding personal security, $2,860 for a housekeeper and $885 as far of the same kind with concerns a gardener, the paper said. It also detailed more mundane monthly expenditures, such as $700 each for electricity and phones, $370 for cable, $250 for doctor visits and $70 for pastime at the Manhattan penthouse, where Madoff was required to remain while on bail.

Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to 11 charges, including fraud, perjury and wealth laundering, in what could be the biggest swindle in Wall Street narrative. He faces a maximum sentence of 150 years in prison, and the judge immediately jailed him.

In arguing for his release, Madoff’s lawyers say they would get a difficult time preparing for his sentencing on the outside of the ability to see him frequently to review his finances. They judge they reckon upon Madoff will be kept in solitary confinement, with limited contact with his lawyers, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

They point completely that Madoff did not run after his December arrest, even though he “was always cognizant of the fact that he would die in gaol.”

“The reality of a life in prison term is not a recent disclosure to Mr. Madoff, no more than an inevitability that he has been aware of since his arrest, if not earlier,” the lawyers wrote.

An appeals flattering attention will hear the case Thursday.

Thus far no one else has been implicated in the scam, and it could be a while before anyone else is arrested and the well stocked compass of the dupe comes to light. On Thursday, Madoff took every one of the blame for his fraud and tried to create a wall betwixt himself and his family.

Given the size of the paper trail - a $65 billion scam, 5,000 victims and monthly statements going back parsimoniously two decades - experts say it could be six months to a year before charges are bought facing any accomplices.

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